On her beloved typewriters, the literary legend mapped out a course for the future of the genre Stephen Kearse "Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books ...

The writers of pulp-magazine science fiction found themselves in an ambivalent position after the explosion over Hiroshima of the first atomic bomb. On the one hand, they were acknowledged as prophets ...

Futuristic worlds are often shaped by Western visions of humankind’s destiny. Afrofuturism offers an alternative that emphasizes how entrenched mainstream science fiction genre has become. This ...

What we find at the intersection of science fact and science fiction, from utopian metropolises to visitors from other worlds. By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul By Mack DeGeurin By Andrew Paul By ...

In addition to discovering what occupations science-fiction readers engaged in, this survey sought to place them on occupational levels, and to compare that level to the population as a whole. I have ...

It becomes a direct influence on George Orwell’s 1984. The origin of the term “science fiction” appears. Journalist and magazine proprietor Hugo Gernsback launches a pulp magazine which ...

came up with the term science fiction (or “scientifiction” as he had it) as he launched the first edition of his sci-fi story magazine Amazing Stories, in 1926? “By ‘scientifiction’ I ...

Science fiction is often, by definition, ahead of its time, but there is one recent release that Ron Howard thinks people should watch sooner rather than later.

For National Science Fiction Day, ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia ...

A classmate introduced Malzberg to science fiction magazines in 1951 and he soon became an avid reader. But it was a career as a literary writer in the mode of Norman Mailer or Philip Roth that he ...