Thousands of science fiction and fantasy fans will be going back to the future this week when Seattle plays host to Worldcon.

Astronomer Marcus Chown wonders if science fiction is dying. With technology and scientific discovery advancing so quickly, it’s unclear what will become of a genre based largely on predicting ...

By harnessing the imaginations of science fiction writers, a California company may have already helped to protect our future selves.

So are there ways for science fiction to model a wholly positive, upbeat future? And if it’s possible, can writers do it without being… boring?

Science fiction as a field has already done an enormous amount of hard thinking about the future of intelligent machines, and a range of other challenging topics.

From manned rockets to flip phones, science fiction has long inspired technology, and now the Museum of Science Fiction will bring iconic gadgets from sci-fi to visitors, alongside inspired real ...

It has its own challenges, to be sure, but one thing is for certain -- the future of Science Fiction is in the Clouds. And I'm looking forward to it.

Science-fiction films often set themselves in the future, whether that's many years or just a very short period of time. It's also fairly common to see science-fiction set in some kind of ...