While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor said. By Michael Levenson It could be a tale from science fiction itself: a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...

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 ...

Those dastardly scientists are at it again, this time developing a neural chip that allows you to turn off sleep. Soon, everyone has one – and then it stops being possible to turn the chip off, and ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the May 10, 1980 issue of America as “Science Fiction and Religion.” Science fiction and religion walking—or jetting—hand in hand? Shades of the ...

Like many of you, no doubt, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favourite sci-fi writers. So I am really excited about a collection out this month that brings together the maps she would draw when starting ...