One cool, rainy evening in June last year, I walked out of the Scottish Daily Mail newsroom for the very last time to the deafening sound of my colleagues banging on their desks.

The journalist and BBC news anchor is a judge for The British Book Awards 2025, the winners of which are announced on 12 May.

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time.