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

A short story is a type of prose fiction. Prose simply means it is written in sentences and paragraphs, and is not a poem or play-script. Fiction means the story is made up, though of course you ...

though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to ...

Celebrate National Storytelling Week with this variety of story writing activities for KS1 and KS2. They will help to inspire a love of story creation and storytelling. These activities allow pupils ...