Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?
Tim Adams
With a new government will come grown-up conversations about our colonial history’s part in the acquiring of artefacts
May 2021
Johnny Mnemonic review – Keanu test-drives early Matrix prototype
Keanu Reeves is in impeccably robotic form as a data courier on the run in this 1995 adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk story set in 2021
April 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Johnny Mnemonic isn’t a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers defending films hated by many is an ode to the 1995 William Gibson adaptation starring Keanu Reeves as a tech antihero
January 2021
Books that made me
William Gibson: ‘I read Naked Lunch when it was still quasi-illicit’
The sci-fi author on Cormac McCarthy, and the influence of William S Burroughs and Kurt Vonnegut
June 2020
The look I love
William Gibson: 'I'm always striving not to be noticed'
The sci-fi novelist on how he inspired the creation of a fashion line – and his nerdy fascination with military fatigues
January 2020
Book of the week
Agency by William Gibson review – a world in an instant
This dazzling vision of politics and power across alternate timelines is both observation and warning
Book of the day
Agency by William Gibson review – back to a frightful future
The ‘cyberspace’ novelist’s century-hopping sequel to The Peripheral is vague and exhausting
William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was'
The writer who invented ‘cyberspace’ – and possibly the most influential living sci-fi author – on the challenges of keeping up with a reality even stranger than fiction
March 2019
Dead Precedents by Roy Christopher review: how hip-hop and cyberpunk hijacked culture
A Chicago academic makes a spirited argument for two movements that marked the start of the 21st century
August 2018
Is the future female? Fixing sci-fi’s women problem
When sci-fi fan Molly Flatt was asked to write a story about women in the future, she re-examined her relationship with the male-dominated genre – and why she remained immune to ‘the Scully effect’
May 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 books to help you survive the digital age
From Philip K Dick’s obtuse robots to Mark O’Connell’s guide to transhumanism, novelist Julian Gough picks essential reading for a helter skelter world
November 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 books about high-tech
From histories of world-conquering innovations to fiction that explores their dark side, a leading chronicler of this giddying world chooses the best guides
July 2017
The Guardian view on the future of crime: it will be online
Editorial: The dangers of machine intelligence will grow as it spreads. We need to prepare now
April 2017
New William Gibson novel set in a world where Hillary Clinton won
Film blog
Digital love: why cinema can't get enough of cyberpunk
June 2016
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
March 2016
Damien Walter's weird things
When AI rules the world: what SF novels tell us about our future overlords
Science fiction has offered many visions of a computer-controlled future, and the future doesn’t look good for humanity
November 2015
Books blog
Guardian readers' comfort library
Jane Austen rubs shoulders with Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett sits next to Harry Potter in the great self-help archive assembled by our contributors
September 2015
Canadian activists and artists back Leap Manifesto's call to end fossil fuel use
Books blog
Ten fictional hackers, from the Matrix to Jonathan Franzen
