Plausible science fiction occupies a space between imagination and inquiry. It does not promise answers so much as ...

Director Shawn Levy's 2011 sci-fi action flick Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman, is now available to stream for free.

Science fiction makes you think. Although sci-fi pushes past the boundaries of reality, it paradoxically allows readers to think about questions that hit closest to home. Technology, society, war, ...

When we recently compiled our list of science fiction movies based on true stories, one film that didn’t make the list was Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer. After all, the technology behind the nuclear ...

The influence of sci-fi on real science is a constant motif. The pioneering pacemaker made by Earl Bakken in 1958 is exhibited alongside costumes and stills from the Frankenstein movies that inspired ...

Sci-fi is an enduring genre on the small screen, even if the budgets couldn't always match the big screen, and these are the best sci-fi shows ever.

Adam Roberts is the author of 23 science fiction novels, including Purgatory Mount, about a spaceship crew investigating an alien megastructure, New Model Army, about a democratically run army, and ...

In some sci-fi narratives, the final frontier of human experience is space. In other stories, it’s time. But, in all cases, the real final frontier just might be what happens in our brains when we’re ...

Often what we love most about our favorite sci-fi and fantasy television shows and movies are the gadgets (or, should I say, props). Yes, there are the beloved characters, the spellbinding storylines, ...

In 1818, Mary Shelley proved that girls do love science fiction after all: she created the genre with Frankenstein. Ever since, sci-fi has always featured a vast array of amazing technology. Naturally ...

Like many people, I love science fiction and often go to shows like CES hoping to see the kind of technology we read about in books or see in movies. But while CES this year had some great technology, ...