Naturally, we now read it on a technology platform that monitors our behaviour and recommends what to consume next.

The irony appears to have survived the journey.

The Sci-Fi Bookshelf is where big ideas meet bigger consequences: artificial intelligence, alien worlds, collapsing civilisations, time travel, genetic engineering, climate catastrophe and the occasional deeply inconvenient robot.

From contemporary titles and award-winners to the classics of Asimov, Le Guin, Herbert, Atwood and Adams, we select books that entertain first but usually leave something more unsettling behind.

The best science fiction does not simply predict the future. It asks what happens if we actually get there…

…and whether we should have.

Distant planets. Alternate realities. Terrible futures.

All safely contained between two covers.