We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

Science fiction writer and editor Gautam Bhatia; and the cover of 'Between Worlds'. (Images via Instagram) Open call for submissions to the second in an annual anthology of Indian science fiction will ...

This is definitely on my reading list: in fact, I am hoping we might choose it for a future New Scientist Book Club read. Longlisted for the Booker already, it has been described by our sci-fi ...

A prevalent conclusion from the recent India Science Festival in Hyderabad was that the country doesn’t produce enough books on science for general audiences. Non-academic science books play an ...

In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing Science ...

In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine. It was about a man named Martel who ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the May 10, 1980 issue of America as “Science Fiction and Religion.” Science fiction and religion walking—or jetting—hand in hand? Shades of the ...

Nicole Pankiewicz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Ursula K. Le Guin still remembers what it was like to be a science-fiction writer in the Northwest after she moved up from California in 1958. For many years, the Portland writer was part of a triad ...

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