The world we carve with our blood remains a world of people. It is in the face of these realities, not in spite of them, that I discover the gift of world builders and science fiction. Writers imagine ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer ...

One day Confucius ascended Mount Tai only to find that the world had already perished countless times Yet in the end after ...

And there's a good reason for that, according to a panel of award-winning science fiction writers at the recent Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C.. "We try to inspire other people to dream ...

Since then authors have tried to make sense of their ... is considered by many to be a significant precursor of the modern science fiction novel. Jonathan Swift’s provocative and controversial ...

Credited with founding science fiction as a field, Shelley’s key contribution to the genre was Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus ... a host of best-selling writers citing her as an ...

The Gernsback Days: A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911 to 1926 ... In another chapter that supposedly examines the ways in which science fiction writers have dealt with ...