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 ...

Today, I count more than thirty scientists who are writing science fiction based on ideas that could be ripped out of the pages of Nature or The Astrophysical Journal. Besides the authors I will ...

The science fiction ideas only need to be interesting and describable. ... As somebody who writes SF for fun I can say that an eternal personal annoyance of SF is that somebody makes a story based on ...

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 ...

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.

“Good question. I hate this part of the process. I guess it’s a science-fiction story.” “Hmmm. That’s convenient, seeing as how you went into this wanting to write a science-fiction ...

A science fiction story, The Land of Machine Memories, recently received a literary award. All-powerful robots and artificial intelligence have long been the subjects of science fiction.

Science fiction has always been a medium for futuristic imagination and while different colored aliens and intergalactic travel are yet to be discovered, there is an array of technologies that are ...

Adam Roberts, a professor at the University of London and author of The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), proposes that this is just what makes Somnium “the first proper ...