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

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 ...

The Witcher originated as short stories ... and worldbuilding present in this story, showing off the dark fairytale influences of The Witcher for everyone to see. Geralt's attempts to survive ...