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

One of his best working class stiff stories is "Graveyard Shift ... the grossest thing Stephen King has ever written (it's ...

Here’s our selection of the best short stories from the Polish master of horror and weird ... Photo courtesy of wydawnictwo Vesper Ever had the feeling that the train you’re riding is bound for a ...

Mining that mountain of reading matter to find the “best” stories of 2024 is an editor’s Sisyphean task — enjoyable, exhausting and ultimately impossible to accomplish. There were just too ...

short but sweet main stories that bring everything together. Perhaps the best part of these shorter stories is that they leave the player craving more, maintaining momentum until the very end ...