Family of Discworld illustrator seek wealthy patron to conserve legacy of ‘one of the great artists of our time’
Relatives of Josh Kirby, who also produced artwork for Star Wars and many well-known authors, hope to keep the sci-fi and horror artist’s collection together for future generations
November 2023
Michael Bishop obituary
Will the planet outlive my dying laptop?
Stewart Lee
August 2023
To see or not to see: Edinburgh fringe’s startling plays about perception
Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways
October 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 horror short stories
With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in
February 2022
From science fiction to dystopian fact
Letters: We shouldn’t be surprised when sci-fi writers correctly predict the future, says Garth Groombridge, while Frances Starbuck detects the shadow of Edgar Allan Poe looming over the current crisis at No 10
August 2021
Stream team
The Ray Bradbury Theater: kitsch, macabre and gloriously schlocky TV anthology
Grown from the same cable-TV compost as The Twilight Zone, this 80s gem boasts a killer cast including Jeff Goldblum, Eugene Levy and Drew Barrymore
November 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about books
From John Boyne to Julian Barnes and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, novelist Antoine Laurain chooses stories that are told inside stories
August 2020
Books seen behind Boris Johnson tell their own story
TES writer spots carefully chosen titles lined up behind PM as he gives speech at school
August 2018
Ukip members sent 'mind-broadening' reading after bookshop attack
Index on Censorship gives books promoting tolerance to two men suspended from party after attack on Bookmarks in London
May 2018
Fahrenheit 451 review – Michael B Jordan adaptation fails to catch fire
Rahim Bahrani’s version of the dystopian novel is set in a future where art is outlawed and official communication is mostly via emoji. Yet it feels both on-the-button and oddly off-pace
March 2017
Point of view
From 'alibi' to 'mauve': what famous writers' most used words say about them
Zadie Smith’s ‘evil eye’, JK Rowling’s ‘dead of night’ … favourite phrases – and cliches – tell a fascinating story
June 2016
Your next box set
Out of the Unknown review: 1960s BBC sci-fi from a Who’s Who of literary talent
Futurism by Forster, colonising space with Ballard and gleaming white hospitals designed by Ridley Scott – thank goodness it wasn’t all wiped
Household chores and the Bradbury blues
Letters: I remember washing the kitchen floor for the third time that week with a mad dog licking away my tears as I wept, not for my situation, but because I’d read Raymond Bradbury’s I Sing the Body Electric
Damien Walter's weird things
How sci-fi simulates simulated reality
Elon Musk caused a stir last week by suggesting ours is not the real world, but sci-fi writers have been speculating about this for at least 70 years
May 2016
Women writers dominate Nebula awards
Led by Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, which took best novel, all but one of the prizes at the science fiction and fantasy awards were for female authors
January 2016
On my radar
On my radar: Leanne Shapton’s cultural highlights
The Canadian writer and illustrator on her love of Ellsworth Kelly, her passion for proper doughnuts, and the wonders of King William Island
October 2015
Damien Walter's weird things
SF discovers reason and chaos on Mars
Since HG Wells’s War of the Worlds, the genre has used the red planet as a theatre for the battle between utopian science and violent nature
September 2015
Mars in literature – quiz
Jess Zimmerman column
The future is grim, insists our culture — so why build a brighter one?
