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  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima — interplanetary, quite extraordinary

    Finally translated into English, this 1962 story of aliens seeking to save mankind blends high and popular literature in provocative ways

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Review
    From teleportation to triffids revisited — our sci-fi round-up

    Alongside dystopian visions from writers today comes a clutch of classics from master of prescience John Wyndham

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    Special ReportFT Health Centre
    FT Health: Future of Antibiotics

    The FT examines the causes and effects of an increasing global resistance to antibiotics: from the pressures doctors are under to prescribe them, to what new treatments are currently in the pipeline, as well as what role can the consumer play in reducing antibiotic use in the food chain

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    FT live news
    Ukraine invasion news from February 24: Russian forces storm Ukraine, civilians flee Kyiv, west unveils new sanctions

    Main developments: Biden says Russia will ‘bear the consequences’ as US and allies roll out fresh sanctions; Ukraine reports bombing of cities and airports; and Russia denies plan to occupy whole of Ukraine

  • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
    Review
    Deserts, dystopias and planetary perils — a round-up of new sci-fi

    From alien worlds to Antarctica, a crop of cataclysmic tales deals in death, life after death and strange, terrifying creatures

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    Review
    Genre round-up: the best in new science fiction

    A disappearing sun, adventure by a real astronaut, nanotech in Dhaka, a dystopian Texas and short stories to fuel the imagination

  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    Nilanjana Roy
    Churails, djinns and rakshasas — India’s monsters go mainstream

    The country’s writers have used science fiction and fantasy to tackle earthly issues — and the rest of the world is catching up

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    Review
    The Every by Dave Eggers — technological tyranny

    Now the predictions of his bestseller ‘The Circle’ have been superseded, his sequel to the dystopia has had to reach deeper

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Science fiction

    James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles

  • Monday, 25 October, 2021
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best in new science fiction

    Creepiness in corporate America; conspiracy theory culture; towns that go missing; and building on a classic by HG Wells

  • Monday, 13 September, 2021
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new science fiction books

    Vampires in verse; a homage to the slasher movie; bodies that contain multitudes; and a dystopian dilemma

  • Monday, 2 August, 2021
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best of science fiction

    A haunted house, medieval phantasms, romance in a loop, and machines in control are among the genre-expanding fare

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    FT Series
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  • Monday, 21 June, 2021
    FT SeriesSummer books 2021
    Summer books of 2021: Science fiction

    James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads

  • Monday, 14 June, 2021
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new science fiction

    A ‘cosy catastrophe’ hits home in Susannah Wise’s debut This Fragile Earth and a different kind of global disaster strikes in Benjamin Percy’s The Ninth Metal

  • Monday, 3 May, 2021
    Review
    Otherworldly . . . sci-fi’s globetrotting wealth of diversity

    Futuristic, fantastical tales from Japan, Prague, Wakanda and beyond that defy Anglo-American dominance of the genre

  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new science fiction

    Women writers offer visions of rural dystopias, oppressed witches and dwindling doomsday cults

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Gaming
    From the apocalypse to the environment: the latest in gaming
  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Review
    The pick of the best new science fiction

    Two smart sci-fi debuts in ‘Radio Life’ and ‘The Stranger Times’ and a London split in two in Louise Carey’s ‘Inscape’

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Nilanjana Roy
    A deep dive into the wormhole of sci-fi invention

    A new online dictionary reveals the often venerable histories of the genre’s most futuristic terms

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new science fiction

    Yuletide chuckles and chills from Andrew Shaffer, and David Wong pokes fun at incels

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
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    FT columnists Martin Wolf, Pilita Clark and Rana Foroohar join literary editor Frederick Studemann to discuss their books of 2020. Register to watch for free

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Science fiction

    James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2020?

    Tell us your recommendation and pick up a few tips for your own reading list too

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Review
    The pick of the best new science fiction

    ‘Unconquerable Sun’ recasts Alexander the Great as a spacefaring princess — plus other out-of-this-world adventures

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