Responses to Death of the Author have spanned from enthusiastic praise to measured, thoughtful critique. Many readers have ...

The Bulletin’s mission—protecting civilization from manmade existential threats like nuclear weapons and climate change—is ...

What has eight eyes and stalks its prey like a cat? It’s not a weird science fiction monster; only a small, frequently ...

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

We are approaching the Gregorian New Year, and it’s a great time to ponder what’s coming next. Are we about to use CRISPR to grow wings? Will we all be uploading our brains to the Amazon cloud? Should ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

This past year, a computer scientist named Tuhin Chakrabarty tried to coax artificial intelligence into producing great writing. Chakrabarty, who had recently completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University, ...

Stephen King’s 1978 novel “The Stand” was a seminal work of apocalyptic horror, republished in 1990 with 400 added pages that had been cut earlier. “The End of the World as We Know It” (Gallery, 800 ...

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 ...

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

If you were a fan of the original, you’ll want to try Ark 2 when it finally makes its debut in the marketplace. Regardless, you’ll find yourself on a strange world full of contradictions Such as ...