While some speculative fiction goes off the rails & departs from any possible scientific realism, others stay true to fact & ...

Danette Chavez Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent masterpiece is one of the finest examples of German Expressionism and of science fiction storytelling on film. One of the first feature-length sci-fi ...

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago during ... This novel is a perfect example of “cosy catastrophe” British fiction. As rival author Brian Aldiss famously describes, the hero ...

Often critics may use their knowledge of the recurrent and important themes of Western culture to misperceive what is actually in a science fiction story. For example, recognizable themes or patterns ...

I wasn’t familiar with many science-fiction examples to connect my explanations to. Since I worked with CRISPR in graduate school, I joined a panel on genetic engineering, a common theme in science ...

It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” ...

Science fiction can be valuable in the broader communication ecosystem, bringing science to the public and offering scientists a space to exercise imagination. Danielle is a Senior Editor at The ...

H. Bruce Franklin’s Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction (1980), for example, combines single-author study, cultural history, and genre critique, and defies tidy classification (this is the ...

But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. Writers may find the future appealing precisely because it can’t be known, a black box ...