CHENGDU, China (AP) — For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi’s biggest annual event, was ...

A woman walks past copies of "The Three-Body Problem" on display at a bookstore in Beijing on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. The series, written by former engineer Liu Cixin, helped Chinese science fiction ...

As the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America awards deserving writers with Nebulas this weekend, I was reminded of the incredible variety and vibrancy of short fiction magazines. We are in, ...

It could be a tale from science fiction itself: A machine that uses artificial intelligence to try to supplant authors working in the genre, turning out story after story without ever hitting writer’s ...

Science writers describe discoveries and commercial developments in all branches of science, engineering, medicine, and environmental science. They explain the impact these discoveries have on the ...

Gordon Gauchat is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Scientists and researchers who ...

“I don’t want to read bot stories. I want to read stories that come out of actual imagination and experiences.” SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She and the ...