Sci-fi books have long been considered both warnings and predictors of potential dangers of the future, and the books that ...

From light speed to hyper drives to lightsabers and autonomous robots, Star Wars was certainly way ahead of its time despite occurring a long time ago. The technologies of tomorrow were on full ...

The purpose of this essay is to describe the development of French science fiction in ... conjectural fiction also acquired, in its formal as well as its thematic constants, a number of essential ...

Her tales of power-hungry telepaths and erotic alien encounters are now canonical, in science fiction and beyond. The prescience of her “Parable” books, which feature environmental disasters ...

Combining elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, the novel introduced readers to the fantastically complex city of New Crobuzon, filled with insect-headed khepri, cactus-shaped cactacae ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...