The science fiction genre exploded in the 1990s, but that means a lot of great films slipped through the cracks and are ...

It is worth mentioning the latest visual techniques of the film, such as «bullet-time». This effect made Neo's fight with the ...

Lincoln Michel’s new novel, Metallic Realms, is a skillful send-up of science fiction fandom and writing group dynamics, set ...

May’s new science fiction novels include a hot tip from our culture editor, as well as war on an alien planet from Bora Chung ...

Often critics may use their knowledge of the recurrent and important themes of Western culture to misperceive what is actually in a science fiction story. For example, recognizable themes or patterns ...

The writers and readers of American science fiction, devoted as they were to garish magazines filled with space adventures, were the exception. When the magazine Science Wonder Stories republished ...

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago during ... This novel is a perfect example of “cosy catastrophe” British fiction. As rival author Brian Aldiss famously describes, the hero ...

I wasn’t familiar with many science-fiction examples to connect my explanations to. Since I worked with CRISPR in graduate school, I joined a panel on genetic engineering, a common theme in science ...

H. Bruce Franklin’s Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction (1980), for example, combines single-author study, cultural history, and genre critique, and defies tidy classification (this is the ...

But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. Writers may find the future appealing precisely because it can’t be known, a black box ...