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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...