Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

regents professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech, wrote in a text message. “In ‘Thundering Worlds,’ we throw Mercury at an invading alien army to save the rest of the solar ...

These text-generating algorithms are not built ... escaping the insular science fiction community to spark yet another round of internet debate about whether or not AI can create good art.

Reading researchers agree that comprehending complex texts is easier when the reader has more background knowledge. Yet, when I read some science fiction picture books with elementary school ...

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

The hosts of Critics at Large issue recommendations on TV shows to watch while eating, how to ease the guilt of unread books, and texts to take the edge off of current events.

This novel becomes one of the most important science fiction texts to examine assumptions about gender. The author, Ursula K Le Guin, is propelled to sci-fi fame following the success of her third ...

The artificial humanities, she explains, would fuse science and the arts to leverage fiction and philosophy ... recently sought to determine whether a text-generating AI could be coached to ...