It’s no wonder that Gene Rodenberry, creator of “Star Trek,” turned to science fiction when he wanted to delve into dicey subjects on television such as race relations and the value of war.

Science fiction and television should, technically speaking, be in perfect harmony. Science fiction deals with what-if scenarios, which have played out beautifully in such classic pulp science ...

Science fiction audiences are also ready for a change of scenery. We’ve seen enough of the pseudo-Asian Blade Runner future, and urban American dystopias are a dime-a-dozen. That’s why Nnedi ...

Few science fiction universes have combined ancient mythology and sci-fi storytelling as convincingly as Stargate. What started as a 1994 feature film by Roland Emmerich morphed into a vast ...

With the season finale of Person of Interest, this show has established itself as one of the best near-future science fiction series since Max Headroom. In a tense, multi-layered episode, we ...

That is, science fiction wasn’t always derivative of scientific explanations themselves. Even before science had fully defined itself, literature offered a means for thinking about science.

For example, The Science of Anime: Mecha‐Noids and AI‐Super‐Bots (2005), by Lois H. Gresh and Robert E. Weinberg, assesses science fiction concepts from a variety of anime series that might ...

Science Fiction. Special | 53m 10s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Explore how storytellers used the future as a stage for modern morality plays. 03/01/2015 | Expired 03/15/2015 | Rating NR ...