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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a habit I formed when time felt limitless. I can hardly imagine that feeling now. A full-size novel is a shaggy beast, often wild and uncontained. In their spareness, novellas and short novels ...

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re always reading novels or nonfiction. They look at me with ...