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.” ...

The series kicks off next week with a four-day visit — from March 31 to April 3 — by science fiction author and science writer Annalee Newitz. Yale Planetary Solutions is a university initiative that ...

This is, of course, not true. Science fiction can present new artistic possibilities for the reader, exposing our imagination and thinking to new worlds and ideas that may seem unimaginable.

There he’d read the latest issues of Popular Science magazine and anything else he could get his hands on, often Western science-fiction classics: Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, H ...

Science fiction’s role in crafting fantasies while confronting current realities. Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of ...

“Little Sisters and Other Stories” by Vonda N. McIntyre is set for release on May 21. Clarion West is presenting “The Roots and Future of Feminist Science Fiction,” a free virtual panel ...

Science fiction writers have a long history of trying to predict future technology. Here are six devices from sci-fi novels that became a reality.

So it may be that if fiction trains us to expect the worst from AI, that’s exactly what we’ll get. But if we treat AI models with some finesse, they will respond in kind.

Science fiction can also illustrate the grim possibilities of overuse of social media and lack of data privacy—both closely related to the explosion of AI—in a more forceful way than ...

Science fiction has historically been considered a niche genre, one in which far-flung scenarios play out on distant planets. Today, though, such plots are at the center of our media landscape.

When George Lucas says "Star Wars isn't a science fiction film," he's really saying, "Star Wars isn't really a science fiction film according to definitions of SF from before 1977." Think about it.

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook ...