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 ...

A recent list of top science fiction films had some unusual choices and left out some well-regarded classics. But, says Quentin Cooper, that’s part of the problem – sci-fi is such a broad church it’s ...

Economics and science fiction share many interrelations that are rarely recognised. Firstly, a lot of economics is science fiction. Many economists believe in the fiction that they are practising ...

Adam Roberts is the author of 23 science fiction novels, including Purgatory Mount, about a spaceship crew investigating an alien megastructure, New Model Army, about a democratically run army, and ...

Science fiction has been a popular genre throughout generations and continues to occupy the hearts of young fans even today. Whether it be the words in a book or the clips of a movie, the genre always ...

Throughout its history, science fiction has been routinely denied the cultural prestige granted to other major forms of modern literature. Even today, when the classic status of selected works of ...

This week, Ian McEwan said his new AI novel was not science fiction – and the world went mad. Sarah Ditum looks at why the genre retains its outsider status Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Machines Like Me ...

Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green “children of Woolpit”, who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and ...

In Me, My Selfie and I, artist Ryan Gander explores what technology is doing to our sense of self. In Arizona, the CEO of a cryonics facility - where people pay six-figure sums to have their bodies ...