The Journal of Imaginary Research publishes fiction presented in the form of formal research abstracts. The imagined research abstracts, and their imagined researchers were constructed by real ...

Dr. Steven Umbrello suggested that 80 years of popular science fiction have effectively convinced many that technology is ...

February’s best science fiction and fantasy books differ significantly ... The prose alternates between achingly poetic and crisply formal. “Ours” is deeply, beautifully weird — not ...

Science fiction and fantasy are almost always most ... More than one story in this book begins with its narrator lodging a formal protest against the story that just ended, and non-sequiturs ...

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

The Intersection of Science and Fiction Weinzweig's use of simulated gravitationless environments in Contraptions is a brilliant example of how fiction can push the boundaries of scientific ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Like science fiction, historical fiction can speak to the present moment without necessarily responding to the most recent news headline or Twitter feud. It can also be a means of formal ...

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.

January 2 is National Science Fiction Day, and ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia Estelle Butler. Named after her mother Octavia Margaret Guy ...