The world of Fortnite: Battle Royale has magical building mechanics and a buff Santa Claus that wields guns and flies airplanes, but the surprisingly believable science behind the game’s rift portals ...

Surprisingly, the literary spirit that haunts Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s massive new anthology, “The Big Book of Science Fiction,” isn’t Arthur C. Clarke or Isaac Asimov or even H.G. Wells. It’s Jorge ...

AlphaGo, fake news, cyberwar: 2017 has felt science-fictional in the here and now. Space settlement and sea-steading seem just around the bend; so, at times, do nuclear war and pandemic. With ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...

Young people who are hooked on watching fantasy or reading science fiction may be on to something. Contrary to a common misperception that reading this genre is an unworthy practice, reading science ...

Such a statement requires not only justification but considerable elaboration. Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even ...

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 ...