To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” ...

At the same time, she remains oblivious that her loyal friend Meg (Tanya Reynolds) might want a little more ... Mine include submarine movies and their science-fiction equivalents: claustrophobic ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

Octavia E. Butler transformed sci-fi with visionary stories on race and identity, yet mainstream fame eluded her. Her legacy ...

The most interesting thing about this series (which includes 2023’s Red Team Blues and 2024’s The Bezzle) isn’t Doctorow’s ...

Today is the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day, and the nonprofit's spokeswoman Caroline Richmond has six great book recommendations to mark the occasion.

I find I can now sit down and read and enjoy high-brow intellectual, philosophical, God-consciousness books and get a lot of good out of them. It probably has something to do with me being ill with ...

From alternate timelines to epic reboots, these are the strongest versions of Superman ranked by sheer power and god-like ...

The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

Body modification in Korea, short stories about automatons through history, and how humans might cope in a dystopian Lilliput ...

Jeanette Winterson was one of the first British writers to tackle the implications of technology – and she’s still at the ...