The decade from 1965 to 1975 was science fiction's so-called New Wave, when the genre took on both the turmoil of the '60s and the literary techniques of high modernism.

In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, he writes that science fiction could be one of the most crucial genres in ... What we need therefore is a new wave of cli-fi which encompasses some or all of ...

In the world of science fiction – far ahead in an invented future – the period brought more progress. “Star Trek” aired the first kiss between two characters of different races on television.

At the time her first graphic novel, “Smile,” was published in 2010, comics and graphic novels still skewed heavily toward young men, with an emphasis on superheroes, fantasy and science fiction.

Ursula K. Le Guin's mastery of fiction has remained so consistent, it's easy to overlook her accomplishments in other forms — but her new nonfiction collection goes a long way towards fixing that.

A: Science fiction (in the 1940s and 1950s) had been very male-oriented, and never touched taboo subjects. Coming into the 1960s, a few writers were trying to take it in a different direction.

One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible scenario: a lethal heat wave descends on India, with ...