New books by William Alexander, Claire North and qntm examine new technologies and unexplored worlds with verve.

WorldCon, the annual volunteer-run science fiction and fantasy writing convention, sweeps through a different city every year ...

In science fiction, spaceships moving at or beyond lightspeed enable all manner of universal exploration. But in Earth-bound reality, traveling at the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second, or ...

The world of science fiction is filled with countless spaceships, many of which can travel faster than the speed of light. This is a necessary conceit in sci-fi, though it goes against Einstein's ...

Every generation grows up with starships that jump across galaxies in a heartbeat, but the real universe is far less forgiving than the screen. The same physics that lets GPS satellites work and ...

Science fiction is everywhere in our 21st century culture, from superheroes to spaceships. But there was a time it was an odd subculture. But those in what was an eccentric circle of literary pioneers ...

Fire and ice, high and low, near and far, fantasy and science fiction. The following pairs might all appear to be opposites, but the last of those are not as incomparable as you might think. Yes, the ...

SCIENCE-FICTION is a form of prophecy. Normally, there is ;t lag of five to as much as one hundred vears between the discovery of a fact in the laboratory and the application of that fact in ...

Though the series’ protagonist is an alien, the show’s science fiction elements were relatively subtle in the early seasons. Harry spends as much time investigating the murder of the town’s last ...

The genre of simulation games is broad and varied, covering anything from hyperrealistic flight simulators all the way to management simulators like Two Point Hospital. While there are a limited ...

The creator of ‘Breaking Bad’ offers a new spin on a classic science fiction trope.