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

The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936 ...

The science fiction novel has experienced something of a renaissance in recent years thanks to Naomi Alderman’s electrifying (quite literally) The Power, the epic Mad Max-in-space of Kameron Hurley’s ...

1. The earliest use of the term Science Fiction, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in 1851 when it was applied to poetry or fiction interweaving a story with scientific fact. 2. The ...

One of the most critically acclaimed science fiction dramas of the past decade is expanding with a new spin-off series on Apple TV ...

Throughout its history, science fiction has been routinely denied the cultural prestige granted to other major forms of modern literature. Even today, when the classic status of selected works of ...

A classic science fiction drama with hundreds of episodes across 10 seasons could be the ideal Netflix binge-watch ...

In August this year, the writer NK Jemisin was called to the stage at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose to collect her third consecutive Hugo Award for the best novel of the year. Three ...

Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green “children of Woolpit”, who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and ...

Different visions of the future are springing up around the globe. Tom Cassauwers explores what these movements reveal about the places in which they appear – including China, Russia and Africa – and ...

Two centuries. Two hundred years. That’s how long we’ve had science fiction. From the birth of Frankenstein, to the death of Ursula K Le Guin. Two hundred years. This was originally meant to be just ...

A recent list of top science fiction films had some unusual choices and left out some well-regarded classics. But, says Quentin Cooper, that’s part of the problem – sci-fi is such a broad church it’s ...