From Ancillary Justice to Saga, savour the best sci-fi writing | Innovation

We are in a new golden age of science fiction writing. Time to kick back and enjoy some of New Scientist‘s favourite new(ish) novels

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By Rowan Hooper, Emily Wilson and Jacob Aron

WE JOIN Rosemary Harper, a human born on Mars, as she enlists on the Wayfarer, a spacecraft tasked with tunnelling wormholes to different parts of the galaxy. This is space opera in the style of Firefly, the TV space-western show; the crew is made up of multiple species and a sentient AI called Lovelace. Despite the mission’s adventures …