In our new column, we hope to highlight some of the fresh, exciting, weird and wacky science fiction and fantasy from around the world and also look back at some underappreciated gems from the past.

Dr. Seth Shostak is senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and the host of the “Big Picture Science” podcast.

One of the best things about science fiction is it can be weird. Really, really weird. More often than not, it isn't weird, it's just spaceships and ray guns and robots, and that's all fine and ...

You want a really weird ride? A science fiction or fantasy epic that stretches your brain like taffy and ties it into strange irregular shapes? Forget television or movies: books are where the ...

Science fiction is great when it’s weird. Really bizarre science fiction takes you on a wild ride, blowing past genre conventions and depositing you someplace miles from where you started.

Fantasy, horror and science fiction are porous genres ... people fumbling for a catchall word sometimes settled on “the weird.” In The Thing’s Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird ...

In a post that’s supposed to explain this subreddit, the moderator says: “Years ago, I had a weird recurring science-fiction-esq dream where girls who showed off their legs had them turned ...

I quite enjoy weird science fiction stories myself, and there’s something about The Alters’ extreme weirdness that gives it a neat dreamlike quality that’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.

And what has influenced the way we view them? Generations before, the aliens of early science fiction were considerably more fantastical – bloodcurdling octopus-beings, intelligent swarms of ...

Originally focused on H.P. Lovecraft and his circle, this biannual literary festival now bills itself as “the international convention of weird fiction ... horror and science fiction notables.