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 ...

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.

The connection between science fiction and real-life spaceflight has cut both ways. Moore fondly recalls when he was working on the “ Battlestar Galactica ” series and NASA reached out.

Science fiction writers have a long history of trying to predict future technology. Here are six devices from sci-fi novels that became a reality.

The Intersection of Science and Fiction Weinzweig's use of simulated gravitationless environments in Contraptions is a brilliant example of how fiction can push the boundaries of scientific ...

The four-day 2025 China Science Fiction Convention wrapped up on Monday in Beijing, where the China Science Fiction Research Center released the 2025 China Science Fiction Industry Report.

In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT, science fiction and other literary magazines have been getting bad AI-generated stories. Outlets like Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Flash Fiction Online have seen an ...

They're a way to step out of the present.” Engaging in science fiction can be a great exercise for building imaginative capacity. As Sagan said in his 1978 opinion piece, “The greatest human ...

The science fiction book portfolio of Indian publishers is lean. Credit: dbtravel/Alamy. A prevalent conclusion from the recent India Science Festival in Hyderabad was that the country doesn’t ...