From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there ...

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

And yet, it isn’t just about the spectacle of it all. Often the best science fiction movies are really just stories about humanity that use the fantastic as a way to teach us about ourselves.