How Artists, Mad Scientists and Speculative Fiction Writers Made Spaceflight Possible. A new book chronicles spaceflight’s centuries-long journey from dream to reality ...

The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz celebrated its 25th anniversary with a lively Night at the Museum event at the MAH, ...

As Sagan said in his 1978 opinion piece, “The greatest human significance of science fiction may be as thought experiments, as attempts to minimize future shock, as contemplations of alternative ...

The popular image of science fiction revolves around such spaceship cowboys as Captain Video or Buck Rogers. A true devotee of the field, however, would deny all connection with such comics.

Speculative fiction is a broad and beloved genre, ... This open-world space adventure is set in a procedurally-generated ...

"Speculative fiction lives in the space where real life and make-believe converge, allowing for interplanetary travel, time travel and the undead to come out and play." As Wood noted, works of ...

Since the dawn of the Space Race, science fiction writers have been dramatizing the legal and political dimensions of space exploration. For example, in 1961’s Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert ...

My contribution in the forthcoming essay collection “Raced Bodies, Erased Lives: Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction” discusses how race, gender and mental health for black girls is ...

How Artists, Mad Scientists and Speculative Fiction Writers Made Spaceflight Possible ... Spaceships, then, is no mere catalog of outmoded technologies and pop cultural baubles.

The popular image of science fiction revolves around such spaceship cowboys as Captain Video or Buck Rogers. A true devotee of the field, however, would deny all connection with such comics.