I can still vividly recall the exhilaration I felt when reading the news of the first landing by humans on the moon in my childhood. Over the years, I have imagined countless scenarios of Chinese ...

Different visions of the future are springing up around the globe. Tom Cassauwers explores what these movements reveal about the places in which they appear – including China, Russia and Africa – and ...

Ian McMillan hosts the weekly cabaret of new writing and performance, with an edition devoted to the future of science fiction writing. Featuring a sci-fi eartoon from Peter Blegvad and a new drama ...

A few years ago I found myself with time to kill, browsing the shelves in a prominent Bloomsbury bookshop. “Where do you keep your science fiction?” I asked. “We do not sell science fiction,” came the ...

When it comes to forecasting the future, science- fiction has not been the most precise medium. Arthur C Clarke may have successfully predicted our network of geostationary communications satellites, ...