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.

Few genres are as widely celebrated and timeless as science fiction, with many films over the years making great strides in exploring the vast reaches of space, technology, and various other ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Michael Bishop, an author who was best known for his award-winning science fiction but who ranged far beyond the genre, venturing into realism, noir mystery and even Southern Gothic, died on Nov ...