Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

The delights of “Dungeon Crawler Carl” and other adventures that conjure worlds too big for one volume.

But fictional portraits of AI have pretty much never looked like the actual present of AI. All those killer Terminators, rebellious Westworld robots, and nuke-hijacking supercomputers have nothing to ...

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 ...

In “Amazing Worlds! : The Science Fiction Art of Randall Ensley,” on display at The Art Studio, Inc. though Nov. 28, the artist explores stories of fantastical voyages. Ensley is an award ...

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 ...

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.

Science fiction and religion walking—or jetting ... an energetic deism illustrated by the greeting: "Share Water. Thou Art God." While the novel as a novel has its structural flaws—it ...

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 ...