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

Every book New York Times best-seller Michael and Kathleen Gear write is influenced by Wyoming. After 88 published books, the ...

This is why I’ve compiled a quick list of short stories you can add to your reading list without any strenuous commitment! From the quickest 10-minute reads to fast 300-page novels, these are my ...

The 29-minute New Yorker film won the best short documentary award ... This year’s zeitgeisty live-action short Oscars lineup is heavy on social issue stories, spine-tingling thrillers and ...

Oh! Account has announced the release of the first anime to adapt the lore of cards instead of focusing on an anime ...

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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 ...

So it’s in this spirit that we’re recommending noteworthy stories from 2024 based on what you like to read about. The articles that follow are not necessarily our biggest viral hits of the year, or ...

B. Pladek's speculative tale about the dark future of education, 'Teach Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness,' appears on io9 ...