Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green “children of Woolpit”, who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and ...

Space science fiction is a lot of things ... X-Wings are one of the few types of starfighters capable of hyperspace travel on their own.vThey also boast heavy shields, four laser canons, and ...

Today’s science fiction, he argues ... “We have one rule: no hackers, no hyperspace and no holocaust,” Stephenson says. He and his collaborators want to avoid pessimistic thinking and ...

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 ...