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

Forget all that nonsense, though, I’m here to prove it’s finally time to embrace the format – the short story revival starts ...

To me this is, to use a highly technical term, totally bonkers. A great short story cannot be topped. When a bunch of great short stories are gathered together in a book, this is even better ...