Soft science fiction, conversely, comprises far-fetched stories based on science and the use of futuristic technologies. For instance, Star Trek and Star Wars are interesting stories. However ...

Often critics may use their knowledge of the recurrent and important themes of Western culture to misperceive what is actually in a science fiction story. For example, recognizable themes or patterns ...

Science fiction stories take place in a world that is different to our own. The story might be set in space, in the future and about new technology or a scientific innovation. Science fiction ...

They are good, they are whole, and they are beautiful. I saw this spring to life in science fiction stories written by activists and organizers in the anthology Octavia’s Brood. Few of them had ...

LET it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story. As an exposition of a scientific theme, it must be ...

Paolo Bacigalupi is an internationally best-selling author of speculative fiction. His most recent novel, Navola, was released in July by Knopf.

Known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, the author talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators. By ...

Kate & Leopold falls more on the side of rom-com than sci-fi, but it is a science fiction story. More specifically, it deals with time travel. Stuart Besser (Liev Schreiber) has discovered ...

On Vicious Worlds picks up the mantle and continues the story for characters like Cleric Chono, Six, and Esek Nightfoot. If ...

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It made for so many good stories, though ... Take the transporters, “one of the most iconic conceits in all of science fiction,” Krinsky says. The Star Trek device can send objects across ...

Science fiction stories take place in a world that is different to our own. The story might be set in space, in the future and about new technology or a scientific innovation. Science fiction ...