From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

The journey hasn’t been easy. A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller.

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago during ... Although Napoleon had been defeated at Waterloo in 1815, the early 19th Century was an era of political upheaval at home and abroad and ...

The prolific American actor, who died on September 9, recorded his dialogue for the first "Star Wars" film in less than three hours Sarah Kuta A version of the gold outfit worn by Carrie Fisher on ...

Science fiction includes anything based on an imagination ... Astronauts at a space station in a scene from the film "2001: A Space Odyssey." An early take on the dangers of artificial ...

With his latest book-length essay, "A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys and Other Wild Places" (Timber Press), Brown rises to a level of acute observation ...

Take the transporters, “one of the most iconic conceits in all of science fiction,” Krinsky says. The Star Trek device can send objects across great distances by converting them into energy ...

Having said that, Netflix really needs to beef up its available titles for science-fiction lovers ... a full assault by the Imperium. Very early on in They Cloned Tyrone, a drug dealer named ...

The intersection of early LGBT rights activism, science fiction, and the occult are beautifully recounted in the new book, "Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagination." Marjorie ...

The author of science fiction classics “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon” turns to historical fiction with impressive results.