In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...

Best books of 2023 — Science fiction on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save James Lovegrove. Published November 14 2023. ... The Hidden Legion by Snorri Kristjansson (Solaris) ...

Intelligent machines have long played a role in science fiction, going back to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927), Isaac Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics (1942) and HAL 9000 in “2001: A ...

Science fiction can also illustrate the grim possibilities of overuse of social media and lack of data privacy—both closely related to the explosion of AI—in a more forceful way than ...

The Chengdu Science Fiction Museum was commissioned to host this year’s 81st annual World Science Fiction Convention, nicknamed Worldcon. A building of this size and complexity would typically ...