Thanks to not only technology, but also science fiction, we have these everyday inventions. Here's the sci-fi concepts that inspired them. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science ...

The title of Keith Cooper’s “Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact” echoes that of Amazing Stories, a magazine founded in the 1920s that was the first to be devoted to ...

The pattern of science fiction anticipating, or at least dovetailing with, cutting-edge real-world ideas is not new: In a 2016 article for The Atlantic, Edward Simon explored the sci-fi that was ...

All these science fiction authors were very attuned to the science that was going on around them and got really great ideas from all the weird discoveries that were being made. H.P. Lovecraft ...

Infinivox’s latest anthology, “The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8,” brings together Kaster’s selections for 2023’s best short stories and novellas in a genre called hard ...

Simulated Gravitationless Environments: From Fiction to Reality In Contraptions, the simulated gravitationless environment serves as a key plot device, offering a unique backdrop for tense and ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction.

Comment The best new science fiction books of June 2025 June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us ...

Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now This month’s picks include a time-travel thriller with Dylan O’Brien and a dystopian comedy with Awkwafina and John Cena.

In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine.

Comment The best new science fiction books of February 2025 From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi offerings ...