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

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There will be a Fiction 101 Reading Party for all winning entries, including honorable mentions, at Rediscovered Books on First Thursday, Feb. 6, time TBA.