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Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. Science fiction writers can be eerily prescient. Consider what John Brunner got right about our ...

The pattern of science fiction anticipating, or at least dovetailing with, cutting-edge real-world ideas is not new: In a 2016 article for The Atlantic, Edward Simon explored the sci-fi that was ...

I n 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine.It was about a man named Martel ...

Science fiction does not need to include detailed science or outlandish premises to offer valuable ideas. By Emily Midkiff/The Conversation Published Oct 9, 2023 3:00 PM EDT ...

The most classic trick of science fiction is brevity. Although the genre is known for epic novels, dense films, and sprawling media franchises, historically, science fiction ideas propagated ...