10 Science Fiction books to read in 2025

We made it. The future we read about in sci-fi books is actually here. Kind of.

Holy shit. It’s 2025!

We made it. The future we read about in sci-fi books is actually here.

Kind of.

We don’t have the flying cars but we do have the pocket supercomputers.

We haven’t colonised other worlds, but we have opened a new frontier to virtual worlds.

And we have – touch dark matter – got here without triggering the apocalypse.

For now.

Watch the video essay on YouTube

And one of the BIG reasons we’ve made it this far is science fiction. It turns out that fusing leading ideas from science and philosophy into narrative structures is an essential survival quality for sentient life.

If we ever do contact the alien other I have no doubt they too will have scifi – just not as we know it.

Which is why I’ve thrown together this new year’s video of 10 science books to read in 2025.

Advance Warning : this isn’t a bunch of new books from publisher press releases “Coming in 2025”. These are the books I’m reading as research for the Science Fiction channel, some recent, many classic, that will be shaping the discussions in our community.

Also, this is a book video…so…you know, it’s just me talking…no fast cut video clips…and no…music…

It’s been a big year for the Science Fiction channel. On YouTube we’ve gained tens of thousands of subscribers and grown the regular viewership to over a quarter of a million people.

If you missed them I STRONGLY recommend catching up with three of the more serious video essays of this year. It’s statistically 12.7 times more difficult to get the Almighty Algorithm to notice a book related video.

So, you might have missed these videos on Stanislaw Lem surviving a Nazi firing squad, HG Wells’ historic meeting with Vladimir Lenin, and the feature length Hippies With Guns : The Culture of Iain M Banks

Watch the video essay AD-FREE and read the full text as a member