It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

Inventors, creators and tinkerers of all sorts displayed their passions at the Lafayette Science Museum on Saturday as hundreds of curious visitors roamed around the third annual Steampunk and Makers ...

Although he is best known as a writer of extraordinary adventures, Jules Verne—one of the most translated novelists in the world—was also a prolific playwright. At the age of thirty-four, he achieved ...

From the first studies of the so-called merveilleux scientifique in such essays as J. Aubry's "Le roman moderne d'hypothèse scientifique" (La Revue des Idées, 1906 No. 37) to the latest monograph by ...

Across the U.S., a superior science-fiction movie called 2001: A Space Odyssey is playing to packed houses. An engrossing novel expanded from the movie’s screenplay and a new nonfiction book called ...

Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of Jules Verne onward, has envisioned technological advances, societal ...