Decades of science fiction assured us all that, yes, one day we'd be able to control the immensely complex gadgetry around us with just our voices. It was right, mostly. The rise of the virtual assistant, built atop still other developments in cloud... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2020-01-23 16:30:00 UTC ]
Christopher Tolkien helped edit and publish much of J.R.R. Tolkien's work after the science fiction and fantasy writer died in 1973. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-17 19:03:20 UTC ]
A young writer wrote a controversial bit of military science fiction about sexual politics. The fallout was nuclear. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2020-01-17 14:00:00 UTC ]
We're in a new golden age of science fiction, especially science fiction short stories. These are some of the best stories you can read right now online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-09 11:35:44 UTC ]
“Alternate history, in my opinion, is a more demanding game,” says the author of “Agency” and other science fiction novels, “if only because conventional historical fiction, like history, is itself highly speculative.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-09 10:00:07 UTC ]
Yes, much of it looks at how we will survive the apocalypse. But we also have the more hopeful genre of solarpunk Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-06 23:50:02 UTC ]
If you're in the mood for a ragtag spaceship crew or queer superheroes living their best lives, check out this list of the best LGBT science fiction books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-06 11:39:51 UTC ]
Get your science fiction and fantasy fix in short form with these excellent novellas -- perfect for the 2020 Read Harder challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-03 11:32:42 UTC ]
This is a big year. Not just in the symmetry of the number – 2020, the futuristic subject period for so many science fiction writers – but in what we already know will happen. A presidential election, prefaced by a likely Senate impeachment trial, will add new layers to an already murky... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-01-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
Since I did a lot of camping in the last year, I've been noticing camping in sci-fi and fantasy all over the place! Let's take a tour. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-02 11:37:49 UTC ]
The 1890s saw pioneering works of science fiction, detective fiction, and Gothic horror all published, by some of the greatest English, Scottish, and Irish writers of the age. In the United States, too, novelists addressed social issues, sometimes in comic ways, while social realism continued to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2019-12-31 15:00:10 UTC ]
In a moment where the future seems impossibly turbulent, leaving us feeling powerless, science fiction can help us get our heads around the complexity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2019-12-31 14:00:05 UTC ]
Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-31 13:53:59 UTC ]
Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-31 13:53:59 UTC ]
Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-31 13:53:59 UTC ]
Futurist and artist Syd Mead has passed away at 86 due to complications from lymphoma. Even if you don't know his name, you've probably felt his impact on Hollywood, especially on the science fiction genre. Mead designed Blade Runner's world and tech... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-12-31 13:01:00 UTC ]
We're visiting Book Riot's Swords & Spaceships newsletter to get recommendations of 2019 standalone science fiction and fantasy novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-30 11:31:11 UTC ]
Two related events shaped the last 10 years in science fiction and fantasy—the most transformative we've seen in the history of the genres. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2019-12-29 14:00:00 UTC ]
Test your knowledge of women writers with a fun pop quiz. First Round Name the title and author of the first-ever science fiction novel. This Pulitzer-prize winner and Italian translator declared in 2015 that she is now only writing in Italian. Name this author. The 2018 Nobel laureate for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces about science fiction and fantasy, by John Seabrook, Julie Phillips, Colson Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, and Joyce Carol Oates. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2019-12-15 11:00:00 UTC ]