My wife doesn't like science fiction. She thinks it's unbelievable. Yet she watches the news and listens to State of the Union speeches. I find science fiction interesting. In fact, when I die I think ...

The problem with genre fiction is the unfortunate stereotypes and assumptions about what subset appeals to what audience. Call something “science fiction,” and it’ll inevitably be marketed to men.

There’s a lot to celebrate about science fiction romance novels — apart from anything else, they’re one of the fastest-growing areas of the genre, and they’re getting a lot of people reading science ...

The fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (also known as STEM) are not particularly diverse. And despite a gradual uptick in diversity over the last decade, a 2023 report from the ...

Some of the coolest science fiction movies of all time are love stories — Eternal Sunshine, Brazil, and plenty of others. Combining big ideas with an epic passion just makes sense. But why do so many ...

At first glance,“Obsidian,” the first book in Jennifer L. Armentrout’s New York Times bestselling “Lux” series, looks like a pretty typical romance novel. There’s a woman with her arms draped around ...

It is common to hear from sci-fi artists — writers, filmmakers, whatever — that science fiction isn't about the future. It's about our fears, anxieties, and hopes for our present time. In 2013, two ...

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 ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our team of expert science writers here at New Scientist to name their favourite science fiction novels. Personal tastes meant we ended up with a wonderfully ...

A.I. and “machine learning models” can decide who is accepted into college, who gets housing, who gets approved for loans, who gets a job, what advertisements appear on our social media and when. The ...