Author Eric Valdespino announces the availability of The Listeners, a completed speculative science-fiction novel, for ...

As a fan of the genre, I can confirm that sci-fi classics like The Matrix, Interstellar and Inception reward endless repeat ...

A big-budget sci-fi movie from decades ago is suddenly finding major success on free streaming, thanks to renewed audience ...

YouTube's live broadcast offering includes a lot more than local channels and major networks, with most niche channels being ...

Netflix has added podcasts to its ecosystem to battle its largest competitor, YouTube. Can Netflix discover a more effective ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

What makes a great science fiction film? In this episode, our science correspondents—and Babbage listeners—bring their favourite sci-fi movies to our Christmas film club. Host: Alok Jha, The Economist ...

We are approaching the Gregorian New Year, and it’s a great time to ponder what’s coming next. Are we about to use CRISPR to grow wings? Will we all be uploading our brains to the Amazon cloud? Should ...

Stephen King’s 1978 novel “The Stand” was a seminal work of apocalyptic horror, republished in 1990 with 400 added pages that had been cut earlier. “The End of the World as We Know It” (Gallery, 800 ...

Science fiction as a genre started out as a cult classic. Every mainstream show we know today, like Doctor Who and Star Trek, was once only seen and loved by small groups of passionate nerds. But as ...

A generation ago, sci-fi aficionados were lucky if there were one or two remotely watchable shows released a year. Today, the streaming economy serves up a reliable supply of lavishly produced, ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...