Space Wheel Interior (1979 ... escape its enclosure and go on to define the visual identity of modern science fiction storytelling and cinematic futurism. Mead entered professional life with ...

“Ramesh Nathan spun fantastic tales about space travel technology and advanced robotics to entice investors into funding his company, but all he had to offer was science fiction,” federal ...

Science fiction in the 1970s and 80s had a sensuality ... which made sense as he had made his name as an industrial designer creating concept art and advertising visuals for car, tire and steel ...

She is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist ... Small but perfectly formed, this novel is set on spaceships stratified into social hierarchies. At the bottom are laborers ...

Waste Tide author Chen Qiufan is, he says, a “science-fiction realist”. He has borrowed the term from Zheng Wenguang, eulogised as the father of Chinese science fiction, but his writing ...

No matter how powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art. Chiang is one of the most admired science-fiction authors writing today, best known for the ...

1. In 1956, when I was 8 years old and attending my first sleepaway camp, I began reading the Tom Swift Jr. series. The plots, concocted by a stream of ghostwriters who published under the ...

Vitra’s sprawling, architecturally diverse campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, makes an appropriate setting for this new exhibition, ‘Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse’. Tapping into ...

In fact, science fiction writers have probed them for decades ... Many jobs have been lost due to automation and physical space is a premium. Lower class people spend their days sleeping ...

From Adrian Tchaikovsky to Hao Jingfang and Natasha Pulley, a host of big science fiction names have new titles ... is the sequel to Johnstone’s The Space Between Us and sees the alien ...

Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this ... Transhumanists seek to extend human cognition and enhance longevity; extropians add space colonization, mind uploading, AI and rationalism ...

A decade ago, Djuna described science fiction as the map of “a new body, a new mind, and new desire”—and who doesn’t want to start over? Toward the end of Counterweight, way up in space, ...