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

The authors of stories set everywhere from Australia to Central America are nominees for a $20,000 prize for short fiction ...

Everyone we meet has a public face. The one they allow us to see. What if there is another side? A side so dark that it would make our souls shudder? The film peeps into the seemingly moral world ...