What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction — in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond — to see how storytellers and ...

Want to know who's considered the world's first sci-fi author? Or exactly how did American science fiction begin? Perhaps what sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? A new book, "The History of ...

Science fiction proves to be a genre that so many people just love. Whether it's advanced technology, time travel, parallel universes, robots, aliens, or simply speculative thought about the future of ...