Science fiction is the literature of big ideas — so coming up with an amazing story idea often feels like the biggest stumbling block in the way of your dreams of authorship. Unfortunately, most ...

9 Sensational Sci-Fi Ideas That Came True. Technologies and gadgets that debuted in science fiction films and novels. ... "It's incestuous," said science fiction writer and futurist Brenda Cooper.

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 Expanse won praise for its amazing stories and complex characters, but the sci-fi series also nailed scientific and ...

When you read fantasy or science fiction stories, the ideas can open up your sense of wonder, but when I read Bradbury as a kid, that's when I discovered that a well-written sentence could do the ...

The more a reader is exposed to science fiction stories, ... Simple picture books like “Farm Fresh Cats” by Scott Santoro rely on familiar ideas like farms and cats to help readers reconsider ...

The new film is based on a short story by Ted Chiang — a 49-year-old technical writer based in Seattle. "Fiction writing is very hard for me," he explains — and so Chiang takes his time.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 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 ...

All these science fiction authors were very attuned to the science that was going on around them and got really great ideas from all the weird discoveries that were being made.