SCIENCE-FICTION is a form of prophecy. Normally, there is ;t lag of five to as much as one hundred vears between the discovery of a fact in the laboratory and the application of that fact in ...

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Fascination with science-fiction worlds is baked deeply into the origins of film history. Beginning with Georges Méliès’ groundbreaking wizardry in 1902’s A Trip to the Moon, the genre’s possibilities ...

It sounds like a dystopian science fiction novel: Writers in crowded basements, operating under pseudonyms and code words to build networks with the like-minded without attracting the ire of a ...

On a Monday evening last September, a NASA spacecraft intentionally blasted into an asteroid in deep space. The goal was planetary defense — protecting our planet from the kind of wayward rock that ...

Brittany Luse: In a nutshell, what is the myth that you see Elon Musk trying to sell about himself? Lepore: The story that he tells about his own life is kind of ripped out of the pages of early ...

Black-and-white movies might be easy to dismiss as a thing of the past, but some of the most forward-thinking science fiction stories were told through the medium that still hold up today. Early films ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

The intersection of early LGBT rights activism, science fiction, and the occult are beautifully recounted in the new book, "Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagination." Marjorie ...