Science fiction can be valuable in the broader communication ecosystem, bringing science to the public and offering ...

Science fiction may be more than just entertainment. New research suggests that regularly engaging with science ...

It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” ...

Science fiction is not often treated as literature worth seriously engaging with, with the genre dismissed as a “lower” form of escapist art lacking depth or “literary merit.” Science ...

In the decades that have followed, both Haraway and Lefanu have proven to be prophetic as SF and, even more so, speculative ...

Award-winning Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin said at a Beijing academic forum Saturday that he believes the sci-fi ...

The question of whether or not we're alone in the universe is a consistent theme in science fiction films. The answer to that question was the subject of one of the great classics of the genre ...

2 See particularly "On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre," College English 34(1972):372-82. 3 For example, "On The Structural Analysis of Science Fiction," SFS 1(1973):26-33. 4 "About Five ...

Atwood’s popular trilogy opens up the genre to a new audience not previously familiar with sci-fi. The author terms her work as speculative, rather than science, fiction meaning that scenarios ...

Some genres are generally set in a specific location or time period. Science fiction films, for example, often take place in some imaginary future. The type of story structures and story ideas ...