Weird Science (1985) is a science-fiction movie that revolves around two unpopular students who are constantly mocked by their seniors for crushing over their girlfriends. Furious about the situation, ...

Few novelists are as adept at inspiring both horror and awe as Jeff VanderMeer. The author is perhaps best known for his award-winning Southern Reach series, of which the first three ...

The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed; The Rainshadow Orphans by Naomi Ishiguro; No Ghosts by Max Lury; Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler; Moon Over Brendle by Jeff Noon ...

Humanoid mosquitoes, alien contact on deadly moons, implants that let you know everything your partner is thinking… the science fiction novels on offer in February feel especially interesting, and I’m ...

Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech ...

A plane is flying to the Philippines, gliding above “the infinite surface” of the Pacific Ocean. Suddenly, a few passengers start to scream. Soon, the captain announces there’s a bomb on board, and it ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

People worship Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, but don’t give it its props as a science fiction classic, argues Rudy Rucker on his blog. Rucker, whose new novel about Alan Turing includes Burroughs as a ...

Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, two major sub-genres that divide sci-fi — hard sci-fi and speculative (or soft) sci-fi — and most of the time, the delineation between the two is ...