The best new science fiction books of September 2024
2 September 2024
From Michel Houellebecq to Booker-longlisted Richard Powers and Rachel Kushner, there is plenty of excellent science fiction to read this September
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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower
30 August 2024
The Hugo award-winning author explains how she finally got to grips with Octavia E. Butler's dystopian novel, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on a third read
Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'
9 August 2024
Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Tade Thompson, author of science fiction novel Rosewater, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, answers all of our most burning questions about his near-future story of alien invasion
An entertaining history of gases shows science at work in daily life
17 July 2024
From laughing gas and whipped cream to compressed air and bicycles, Mark Miodownik's new book It’s a Gas lives up to its title by revealing just how much science is woven into the everyday
New Scientist recommends YouTube series Journey to the Microcosmos
17 July 2024
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Would you resurrect a dead loved one with AI, asks a new documentary
17 July 2024
The extraordinary film Eternal You probes the power of "grief technologies" – boosted by AI – to generate credible simulations of the dead, says Simon Ings
Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers
10 July 2024
An eye-opening new book by psychologist Lucy Foulkes lifts the lid on the surprisingly rational strategies behind the risky behaviours of adolescence, finds Catherine de Lange
New Scientist recommends Martha Wells's sci-fi novella All Systems Red
10 July 2024
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Why many inventions, from flying cars to smart robots, fail to launch
10 July 2024
Some technologies never quite make it. But a new book, The Long History of the Future, shows how certain problems are just bigger and thornier than we thought
Cute housebot Sunny lures us into an intriguing and flawed TV show
10 July 2024
In TV show Sunny, an adorable robot befriends Suzie, a lonely US expat in Kyoto. Its appearance also primes us to love the show, despite it ducking the complex questions it raises, says Bethan Ackerley