Ted Chiang is perhaps the world’s most celebrated living science-fiction author. His short, carefully hewn stories explore how our inner worlds and our societies would react to unexpected rifts in the ...

The first and second episodes of Alien: Earth season 1 are now streaming on Hulu and FX. The show reimagines the Alien movie universe as a chilling eight-episode series. The rest of the season will be ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...