Grab a Copy Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact By Keith Cooper Reaktion Books 224 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

But sometimes a special group will be called in to make sure the movie gets it right: science consultants. For many of these professors and researchers, science fiction is the go-to genre.

Jill Lepore says that the SpaceX C.E.O., an avid sci-fi fan, misreads cautionary tales as instruction manuals—and that his obsessions will shape America’s future.

This is, of course, not true. Science fiction can present new artistic possibilities for the reader, exposing our imagination and thinking to new worlds and ideas that may seem unimaginable. As ...

Features Why Has Sci-Fi TV Stopped Imagining Our Future? Once, shows like Star Trek predicted new tech and a boldly going future; now, Severance, Silo and even Trek are looking to the past.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a pivotal film. Spielberg’s huge skills are further seen in E.T. In the 1970s, the power of the film and television industry created a form of science fiction ...

Television hasn’t always been kind to science fiction, with smaller budgets to throw at special effects and epic, universe-spanning narratives getting cancelled before their time. But despite ...

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a new science fiction game in which space travel had advanced significantly by the mid-‘80s. Director Neil Druckmann has cited sci-fi anime like Akira and ...

A membership for the World Science Fiction Society costs about $58 (£45), meaning the membership fees to cast 377 fraudulent votes would cost about $21,900 (£16,960).

My co-host for the Fiction Science podcast is Dominica Phetteplace, an award-winning writer who is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and currently lives in San Francisco.

There is some discussion regarding what qualifies as the earliest form of science fiction. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been mentioned as the genesis of modern sci-fi upon its release in 1818 ...