Humanity's ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger. In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two years ago, in her debut novel The Hunger, Alma Katsu took a fairly well-known historical disaster — the ...
As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...
Cixin Liu is a Chinese science-­fiction novelist whose Hugo Award-winning The Three-Body Problem (2008) recently teleported to Net­flix. According to Liu’s notion of the cosmos as a “dark forest”, ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the opening pages of Van Jensen’s Godfall (Bantam £20), the body of a three-mile-tall alien with gleaming ...