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.

Lynn Thorndike, professor of history at Columbia University, this week turned out two final chunky volumes of his six-tome monumental History of Magic & Experimental Science, thereby completing ...

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.

The fascinating Wonderland factual TV series returns to Sky Arts this Spring with an all-new four-part series, Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age, premiering on April 3rd at 8pm. Science ...

Here we go again — the mood is not sunny in science fiction these days. The United States of the year 2073 is a nightmare of extremes in this feature from the director Asif Kapadia.