People sometimes say science fiction basks in optimism for a better future, while fantasy is about nostalgia for an imaginary past. But this year’s most notable fantasy books worked to uncover ...

UW-Milwaukee Planetarium director Jean Creighton joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to discuss a few sci-fi films that ...

1. In 1956, when I was 8 years old and attending my first sleepaway camp, I began reading the Tom Swift Jr. series. The plots, concocted by a stream of ghostwriters who published under the ...

Science fiction in the 1970s and 80s had a sensuality ... which made sense as he had made his name as an industrial designer creating concept art and advertising visuals for car, tire and steel ...

This has been a great year for escapes: Speculative-fiction writers have leaned hard into the fantastic and the diverting, offering stories that posited everything from “methgicians” to AIs ...

The new Apple TV+ show starring Alexander Skarsgård features a mix of special effects-laden action, deadpan humor and social commentary. It deserves a big audience.

Instead, it’s the uniquely human art of storytelling. “I think we’re in a ‘Diamond Age,’” he says. “I don’t think we’ve had science fiction as well-written as it is now.

You would expect a science fiction book about the distant future ... Etoine and Zaffre are artists, and their art feels more politically resonant than the regicide of the book’s title.

But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. Writers may find the future appealing precisely because it can’t be known, a black box ...

In his forthcoming book, “Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop,” Martin Puchner ... PUCHNER: I didn’t read a lot of science fiction or fantasy growing up but I’ve developed ...