In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...

In a new series called “Sci X Sci-Fi,” Yale Planetary Solutions will convene leading thinkers from across many realms — futurists and scientists, artists and engineers — to envision a thriving, ...

The connections between watches and science fiction are longer-established and deeper than many might think. Perfectly round watches of the 1950s, like the Audemars Piguet 5093, immediately picked up ...

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is a ...

Science fiction authors don’t get much more legendary than Peter F. Hamilton, and this latest sounds intriguing – it’s a novel set in the universe of new sci-fi role-playing game Exodus.

Hundreds of votes were cast fraudulently for one finalist in the prestigious Hugo Awards, which honors the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year, its administrative team has ...

London stoner legends Orange Goblin roar back leaner, meaner and even trippier that ever before on titanic 10th album Science, Not Fiction. Ben Ward will always a big, burly bastard, but in the ...

Science fiction’s role in crafting fantasies while confronting current realities. Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of ...

Curated by Susanne Graner and Nina Steinmüller, the exhibition features over 100 objects, many of which will be familiar from cameo appearances in everything from Star Trek to 2001: A Space Odyssey to ...

Science fiction has historically been considered a niche genre, one in which far-flung scenarios play out on distant planets. Today, though, such plots are at the center of our media landscape.

It’s easy to name some of the best science fiction movies of all time, such as Star Wars, Alien, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, but sometimes many great Black-led sci-fi movies don’t get enough ...

When a professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University set out to write a science fiction novel about the metaverse and humanoid robots, he turned to artificial intelligence for inspiration. The AI ...