Something seems off. At a glance, life on Earth continues as it always has. People walk the streets, do their jobs, and spend ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

The outlandish premise comes straight from Edward Ashton’s 2022 science-fiction novel, “Mickey7,” but it’s typical of Bong, a merry maximalist, that he has added ten dead Mickeys to the title.

Acclaimed by science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke, Zebrowski shared his Bethlehem home with his partner, fellow writer Pamela Sargent George Zebrowski, of Bethlehem, who died Dec. 20 at 78, was ...

The space program, in Campbellian science fiction, was proof that humanity could be triumphant and conquer the universe. A life-long depressive, Malzberg had little use for can-do technological ...

In 50-odd science fiction magazines, space travel is a favorite theme. Eight comic strips and at least two TV programs are flying through space. “Scientific” space books are brisk sellers.

At the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Saint Louis, MO, where Robert Heinlein was the guest of honor, I was able to get his autograph on some of his books and even rode on an ...

Across the U.S., a superior science-fiction movie called 2001: A Space Odyssey is playing to packed houses. An engrossing novel expanded from the movie's screenplay and a new nonfiction book ...