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Our critic rounds up the biggest and best science-fiction writing
Joanna Kavenna creates a world where you can be imprisoned for a crime not yet committed
'The Martian' author Andy Weir says building a long-term lunar base is all about economics
A look at This is How You Lose the Time War, Exhalation, The Passengers, and Wanderers
Tesla delivery milestone, fen tech tigers, corporate travel apps
James Lovegrove selects his mid-year reads
A piquant amalgam of historical fiction and fantasy
A story studded with images of duality and metamorphosis
A dazzling novel in which a theoretical physics professor reconnects with an old university pal, after death
‘Artificial Consciousness’ Emily’s only hope — and humanity’s — lies in overcoming our species’ worst traits and forging something new
Strong plotting and credible science are in abundance in this book
Never mind the future: where are the books tackling Silicon Valley’s current challenges?
This bloodily exuberant thriller functions as both social satire and dire warning to the elites to share the goodies
A scavenger is salvaging a wrecked spacecraft when she becomes infected by a symbiotic parasite
With civil war breaking out, a human-alien hybrid may be the only hope of peace
A period-set Bath tale but not as Austen saw it with breathless action scenes and multicultural characters
A childless couple adopts and raises the sole survivor of an alien spaceship crash
A novel concerned with issues such as gene editing and body modification
A historian searches for a teenage boy who may hold the key to humankind’s future
A police officer investigates a fatal accident involving a roofer who has fallen off a building
A lesbian couple enrols in clinical trials of a new ‘ovum-to-ovum’ technology
An ex-corporate enforcer is employed as bodyguard to help conduct an ‘audit’ of the colonised Mars
Naive but intrepid Charlie Worthing takes a job as a novice Winter Consul and uncovers a conspiracy connected with a viral dream
A thought-provoking read, grounding its outlandish elements in solid realism and vivid characterisation
James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles
