From Gulliver's Travels, through Brave New World and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, this timeline explores the ...

These literary science fiction books with stunning prose and complex characters will give you a new perspective on what it means to be human.

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Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of Jules Verne onward, has envisioned technological advances, societal ...

The Future History international science fiction award has shortlisted 120 works from 1,060 entries submitted by authors in ...

As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Idiocracy—demanding innovation with safeguards and clear global engagement.

Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse, wearable tech and artificial intelligence long before those technologies arrived. What does he think of it all now? Host Megan McArdle ...

Science fiction has a remarkable history of predicting the future. Long before many inventions existed, writers, filmmakers, and television creators imagined technologies that seemed impossible at the ...

Science fiction movies have often been dismissed as pure fantasy, filled with impossible technology, distant planets, and imaginary futures. Yet the genre has always been about much more than ...

Science fiction has long shaped how we imagine artificial intelligence — as either humanity’s destroyer or its savior. The real future probably lands somewhere in between. The central question isn’t ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...