The moment you hear the terms climate fiction or post-apocalyptic, your mind probably goes straight to burned-out wastelands, ...

Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures ...

As Sagan said in his 1978 opinion piece, “The greatest human significance of science fiction may be as thought experiments, as attempts to minimize future shock, as contemplations of alternative ...

Paonia writer Paolo Bacigalupi reflects on 10 years since the publication of his climate thriller “The Water Knife.” ...

It is uncanny how human fears about robots mirror those about immigrants. But maybe they aren't out to take our jobs or destroy us all, says Annalee Newitz ...

"Which Future? Fiction and the Everything Change" will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. Atwood's talk is free and open to the public. Atwood's critically acclaimed work ...

In Back to the Future, it’s November 12, 1955, and The Atomic Kid is showing on the Town Theater marquee. It’s a subtle background detail, but what’s really interesting is that it’s more ...

To Miéville, it’s a mistake to read science fiction as if it’s really about the future: “It’s always about now. It’s always a reflection. It’s a kind of fever dream, ...