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

These movies offered either prophetic reflections of the future or sentiments that would only become more prevalent with time ...

Some classic science fiction movies made sweeping predictions for the future. In some cases, those predictions never came to pass, but in others, the movies were strikingly on point. Predictions about ...

As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Idiocracy—demanding innovation with safeguards and clear global engagement.

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse, wearable tech and artificial intelligence long before those technologies arrived. What does he think of it all now? Host Megan McArdle ...

A decade ago, Paonia author Paolo Bacigalupi applied a science fiction lens to the Colorado River crisis. “The Water Knife” portrays an American Southwest where paramilitary battles break out over a ...

Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big ...

Half of the British political world thinks we are insufficiently scared about the present; the other half thinks we ...