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

The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human. By Pierce Brown Pierce Brown is the number-one New York Times ...

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

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...

It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

Introduction : coloring science fiction / Isiah Lavender III -- The Bannekerade : genius, madness, and magic in black science fiction / Lisa Yaszek -- "The best is yet to come", or, Saving the future ...

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 ...