While some speculative fiction goes off the rails & departs from any possible scientific realism, others stay true to fact & ...

Science fiction stories take place in a world that is different to our own. The story might be set in space, in the future and about new technology or a scientific innovation. Science fiction ...

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we ...

Research reveals that, far from dehumanising viewers, science fiction could actually strengthen our ability to empathise with ...

But the task of science ... fiction,” says novelist Cory Doctorow, whose clients have included Disney and Tesco. “There is nothing weird about a company doing this—commissioning a story ...

She began submitting stories to science fiction magazines in 1960, amassing rejections until 1970 when she sold her first tale—“Childfinder,” a story about a telepath working to help psychic ...

I think what science fiction offers is a safe sandbox where we can game out possible future scenarios, imagining unexpected secondary and tertiary effects of new technologies and policies. A great ...

Link's lecture will conclude with a brief introduction to one of the greatest 20th-century science fiction writers, Philip K. Dick, with special attention paid to his short story The Electric Ant.

Science fiction stories take place in a world that is different to our own. The story might be set in space, in the future and about new technology or a scientific innovation. Science fiction ...