China Miéville is known for his "new weird" fiction, with works that marry sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. Asked about Elon Musk, the author said sci-fi isn't the "blueprint" some in the tech ...

A journalist interacts with a humanoid robot at the 2025 China Science Fiction Convention, which was held from Friday to Monday in Beijing.[Photo provided by Zou Hong/China Daily] The four-day ...

Maybe this has always happened, but I’ve noticed more tech industry folks like Elon Musk talking about science fiction and treating Isaac Asimov or Kim Stanley Robinson as sort of a blueprint ...

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

Waste Tide author Chen Qiufan is, he says, a “science-fiction realist”. He has borrowed the term from Zheng Wenguang, eulogised as the father of Chinese science fiction, but his writing ...

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Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre’s science fiction reflected an imaginative view of other worlds. (Illustration: SFWA / Microsoft Copilot / Media.io) Decades before the current debates over ...

Believed once to be relegated to the sphere of thought experiments, science fiction technology has sprung into reality through the tireless efforts of dreamers, engineers, scientists, and academics.

Recognizing the influence that popular narratives have on our collective perceptions, a growing number of AI and computer science experts now want to harness fiction to help imagine futures in ...

The hosts of Critics at Large issue recommendations on TV shows to watch while eating, how to ease the guilt of unread books, and texts to take the edge off of current events.

Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work.