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Humans

The dreams our stuff is made of

Ahead of our Dreamers鈥� Club discussion at London's Barbican centre on 29 June, author Simon Ings asks why the present looks so futuristic

Astronaut and spaceship

Humans

If I were a Martian, I’d start running now

Scene from the film The Planet of Storms by Pavel Klushantsev

Space opera is taking humanity to its limits

Chinese fantasy and sci-fi conference

In China, this is science fiction’s golden age

Floating woman writing at a typewriter

Winning words: Write us a sci-fi masterpiece in 48 hours

Humans

Short story: The university of the sun

Enterprise

Space

Stardate 08092016, Star Trek’s birthday mission

Flying-saucer-like craft swoops over rocky terrain with Saturn-like world on the horizon

Humans

Six science fiction novels you should be reading

Life

Science in Fiction: Pandora’s Sisters by Michael Stephen Fuchs

Science in Fiction: Essay by Rebecca Goldstein

How a serious-minded child stopped feeling ashamed about loving fiction and learned to embrace its peculiar power to unlock ideas

Health

Science in Fiction review: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Earth

Science in Fiction: Sixty Days & Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson

Life

Science in Fiction review: Ghost by Alan Lightman

Life

Interview: In search of a grand unified theory of me