Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter ...

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Speculative fiction is the literature of change — which is another way of saying that resilience is in its bones. Many of genre fiction’s iconic works are about facing the worst, from Isaac Asimov’s ...

A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

In recent months, some of the major players in science fiction and popular culture have been taking firmer stances against generative AI. Separate decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

We are approaching the Gregorian New Year, and it’s a great time to ponder what’s coming next. Are we about to use CRISPR to grow wings? Will we all be uploading our brains to the Amazon cloud? Should ...

Stephen King’s 1978 novel “The Stand” was a seminal work of apocalyptic horror, republished in 1990 with 400 added pages that had been cut earlier. “The End of the World as We Know It” (Gallery, 800 ...

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Science fiction‘s task is to imagine our future; its secret wish is to invent it. Brackett, while casting himself as a mere psychologist and psychology as a mere medical science, plays with the ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

In this episode of Space Minds, Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust moderates a panel at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next installment of the Center’s Discovery Series. The panel ...