Science fiction has historically been considered a niche genre, one in which far-flung scenarios play out on distant planets. Today, though, such plots are at the center of our media landscape.

Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 science fiction thriller Children of Men is set in a not-so distant future where environmental pollution has rendered women infertile, pushing ...

Francis Upritchard blends science fiction and folklore in epic new Sydney Modern Project commission. ... adding of the artwork, ‘no one should feel that they don’t understand’ – it can mean ‘whatever ...

Intelligent machines have long played a role in science fiction, going back to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927), Isaac Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics (1942) and HAL 9000 in “2001: A ...

It has been a sadly light year for epic-scale science fiction, but casual readers and hardcore fans alike will be relieved that Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the team who write under the name ...

In science fiction - think films and TV like "Interstellar" and "Star Trek" - wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through space and time for spacecraft to traverse unimaginable distances with ...

The Chengdu Science Fiction Museum was commissioned to host this year’s 81st annual World Science Fiction Convention, nicknamed Worldcon. A building of this size and complexity would typically ...