Person of Interest, The Expanse, and Continuum are some of the best sci-fi shows from the 2010s and are genuinely perfect from start to finish.

Released in the last decade, these impeccable hard sci-fi books are grounded in plausible scientific accuracy, logic, and ...

Exploring the foundational classics, international gems, and psychological thrillers that built the modern genre ...

Some classic science fiction movies made sweeping predictions for the future. In some cases, those predictions never came to pass, but in others, the movies were strikingly on point. Predictions about ...

Editor’s Note, October 14, 2021: A previous version of this article misnamed John W. Campbell as James W. Campbell. The story has been edited to correct that fact. Mark Strauss is the Departments ...

Skylines is the rare sequel you can watch before any other projects in the franchise. It’s actually the third movie in the ...

Our modern technological society owes a lot to Star Trek. Since its debut in 1966, the show has been predicting the future of science and computing. The Federation’s flip-open communicators were a ...

Some inventors find their inventive spark through science fiction. Tasers, for example, were inspired by (and named after) the 1911 novel Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.[1] Likewise, Motorola’s ...

Science fiction has always occupied a fascinating place in popular culture. It entertains audiences with distant galaxies, impossible machines, and futuristic societies, but it also serves another ...

Future technologies are rapidly moving from science fiction ideas into early-stage prototypes, real-world testing, and limited commercial use, making the gap between imagination and reality smaller ...

Sci-fi masterpieces like Metropolis, Arrival, and Stalker are among the absolute greatest movies ever in the genre.

William likes watching movies and writing about those movies. Anything else is minutae. Soft science fiction is a genre term that, appropriately, has no hard rules to define it. It's been used to ...