There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between ...

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

but if you asked me to choose 960 pages of short stories or that book, it’s no contest: give me the shorts. As for how to find the very best ones, a good way to look for quality is to figure out ...

T he best of this year's fiction features characters who, like so many, feel like they don't belong anywhere, even when ...

But in a busy, chronically online world, any number of books read is something to be proud of. Need a short book to cap off ... “Open Water” is a love story between two young adults, a ...

During the Covid lockdowns, when her kids were confined at home and she had less time to herself, she turned to the short story form. The result, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, is an ...

They also strive to be good citizens of an ailing planet and have sex with their partners more than once in a blue moon. In “Comorbidities,” which won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award ...