Clifford D. Simak is one of sci-fi’s 50-year men. Born in 1904, he sold his first story in 1931 and continued publishing till he died in 1988, all the way from the fiction era to “Star Wars ...

Off screen and on, the 1950s was a spectacular era for science fiction. In literature, Ray Bradbury kicked off the decade with his masterpiece, The Martian Chronicles, while digest magazines like ...

Why it’s daunting: If the ’50s were science fiction’s rock ’n’ roll period, and the ’60s were its psychedelic phase, then the ’70s were when SF finally went emo. The genre was always ...

Extraterrestrial Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and his robot, Gort (Lock Martin), address U.S. officials from their flying saucer in ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ (1951). Extraterrestrial Klaatu ...

Anne Francis, who costarred in the 1950s science-fiction classic “Forbidden Planet” and later played the title role in “Honey West,” the mid-1960s TV series about a sexy female private ...

For years, I’ll admit, I all but dismissed Forbidden Planet as fairly routine mid-’50s science fiction fare, albeit writ large. Apart from designer Robert Kinoshita’s iconic Robby the Robot ...

“We live in a science-fiction world,” explains James Cameron, the acclaimed filmmaker behind “The Terminator,” “Aliens,” and “The Abyss.” While fans are waiting for the next four ...

BOSTON--Real science is finally beating out science fiction when it comes to the Robot Hall of Fame. Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday announced its 2007 inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame ...