Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that explores the effects of scientific discoveries, technological innovations, natural events, and evolution on people and their relationships.

Lumley has become a national treasure – but Sapphire & Steel showcases her ability to chill rather than thrill her audience.

From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H ...

The crossover genre blending the passion of romance with the high-stakes escapism of fantasy has dominated the literary landscape. Here’s where to start.

2024 was a good year but looking forward the science fiction genre is looking even better. 2025 will bring us the next entry in the Avatar and Jurassic Park franchises.

Some additional examples of genre fiction are science-fiction, mystery, western, dystopian and gothic. “Many stories contain elements of several defined genres,” said Wood. Witcover agreed that a ...

Science fiction writers Steve Miller and Sharon Lee sit Aug. 9, 2023, in the dining room at their Waterville home. The two wrote many novels together. Miller died Tuesday at home.

I found that the science fiction books in those 10 elementary school libraries were checked out at a higher rate per book than all of the other genres. Science fiction had 1-2 more checkouts per ...

But his first science fiction film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), was an instant masterwork, and he’s returned to the genre consistently ever since, often setting new standards for ...

Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley sat down to write a ghost story and created science fiction. Women still pen the genre’s finest, exemplified by Ursula K Le Guin, who died this week. Yet so ...