Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...
With a new 28 Days Later movie and a new Dune, not to mention films from Stephen Spielberg and Ridley Scott, this is shaping ...
New books by William Alexander, Claire North and qntm examine new technologies and unexplored worlds with verve.
Thonotosassa, FL / / December 27, 2025 / Sam Toney Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi ...
Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the ...
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How not to misread science fiction

Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big ...
Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...
Science Fiction Theatre was an early sci-fi anthology TV series, and though it became well known, it wasn’t the first. Technically, it was predated by the CBS anthology series Out There and the ABC ...
The science fiction of Joanna Russ. In her science fiction, the novelist offered not only an astringent critiques of the present but also bold visions of the future. “From now on, I will not trust ...
A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...