Two very different approaches to science fiction are on offer this week. In The Zero Theorem, we have Terry Gilliam's "everything but the kitchen sink" overload of ideas and production design. And ...

Science fiction comedies often thrive on unlikely friendships. In Adithyan Chandrashekar's Pluto, that friendship is between a directionless Malayali youth and an alien who turns out to be just as ...

Judges praise winning novel Rosewater for its ‘winning combination of science fictional invention and sly wit’ British Yoruba author Tade Thompson has won the Arthur C Clarke award, the UK’s most ...

Last Thursday brought tidings that life might take forms different from what had hitherto been imaginable. Bacteria found in a Californian lake were managing to get along without all of the six ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn run for their lives on Hadley's Hope (20th Century Fox) Set between the events of Ridley Scott's ...

FORGET what you’ve seen so far in 2009 – the science-fiction blockbuster of the year has arrived. Produced by Peter Jackson and filmed in Johannesburg, District 9 has taken America by storm, and now ...

In a matter of hours, Joe Cornish’s spooky, supernatural adventure-drama Lockwood & Co. will be hitting Netflix – bringing with it the tale of teenage freelancers battling ghosts in an alternative ...

A short, sharp and fairly shallow take on the famed franchise nevertheless delivers on the full Aliens power fantasy. Aliens: Fireteam Elite? With its gloriously gooey entrails, chunky gunplay, and ...

Britain feared an alien invasion was happening when Orson Welles debuted his version of The War of the Worlds on national radio back in 1938 under the guise of a news broadcast. The Northern Stage ...