We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

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 Star Trek universe is full of exotic and breathtaking planets, and now in a preview for Lower Decks #3, fans see a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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"Your Utopia," a collection of short stories by Chung Bora (Bora Chung), is the country's first nominated for the U.S. Philip ...