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We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

“Parable of the Talents,” by Octavia Butler, “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” by Rita Dove, “Ninetails,” by Sally Wen Mao, and a sprinkle of Harry Crews. How do you organize your book ...

People do rest as a political act, but I’m arguing for leisure and fun and joy as a kind of political act,’ says bookshop ...

Hairston has given many talks and published numerous critical essays on Octavia Butler, speculative theatre and film ... "Griots of the Galaxy," a short story, appears in So Long Been Dreaming: ...

After a short, ill-advised marriage measured in ... 2 1/2 stars (out of 4); Neva Gronert, Parker “Kindred,” by Octavia Butler (Beacon Press, 2003) This ground-breaking speculative fiction ...

In English, the year began with “Wednesday”, “Thursday”, “Friday” — or in short: WTF. This special start to the ... of the ...

Book-lovin’ columnist David Allen offers highlights from what he read in 2024, from “Middlemarch” to histories of Riverside ...