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

King has a lot of short stories, folks, and the bulk of them are pretty damn great. Which meant whittling the list down to 10 specific titles was a little tricky for me, but I did my best!

Marco Perego’s “Dovecote” stars his A-list wife, Zoe Saldaña ... Álex Lora’s “The Masterpiece” won best short at Berlin and the short film grand jury prize at Sundance.