A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame will be the featured speaker at a national science fiction conference hosted by the University of Kansas next month. Samuel “Chip” Delany will ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our team of expert science writers here at New Scientist to name their favourite science fiction novels. Personal tastes meant we ended up with a wonderfully ...

Brandon Sanderson spoke with several authors to discuss the overused science fiction tropes they want to get rid of.

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

Ringworld by Larry Niven was published in 1970 to huge acclaim, winning both Hugo and Nebula awards; it’s been in print ever since. It came out when humans had just landed on the moon and it looked ...

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 ...

Name: Greg Bear Age: 52 Residence: Lynnwood SF subgenres: Space opera, high-tech suspense, biological science National best seller: "Darwin's Radio" (1999) Best-known book: "Darwin's Radio" Name: ...

The enigmatic science fiction of Djuna. The radical visions of South Korea’s mononymous, pseudonymous, and officially anonymous sci-fi novelist and film critic. It would be easy to list the conditions ...

Science fiction, you (allegedly) have a sexism problem. In an incisive article for the The Guardian's book blog, Damien Walter lays out a stark gender disparity: of the 29 Grandmasters of Science ...

A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories. Latin American science fiction writers are leaving behind imported landscapes and story lines and ...

The Bulletin’s mission—protecting civilization from manmade existential threats like nuclear weapons and climate change—is important. Filling civilization with art and the humanity it fosters is ...