However, with the recent passing of Robert Carradine, one of the show's stars, these memories have taken on greater ...

At the tail end of 2025, Brandon Sanderson left his massive Cosmere fantasy universe behind for his new short story collection Tailored Realities. But more surprisingly, the book largely leaves the ...

There’s a type of knife tech often seen in science fiction that revolves around vibrating a blade to increase its sharpness.

Sci-fi shows come and go, but certain series surprisingly hold up over time, like Doctor Who, The X-Files, and Star Trek: The ...

Shannon Fay, editor at Seven Seas, has noted a similar trend. “A lot of the generation that grew up with manga and anime is having kids,” she says, and manga provides an intergenerational bond—parents ...

Commander William Adama and the Battlestar Galactica. Cotret said he chose to follow a new crew and ship to avoid being ...

With these epistolary snapshots, McCullough tackles an extraordinary range of subjects: from virtual reality, secular liberalism, and the nature of fatherhood to Islam, infant baptism, and the ...

In recent months, some of the major players in science fiction and popular culture have been taking firmer stances against generative AI. Separate decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward; Pagans by James Alistair Henry; Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo; Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman; A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang ...

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So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...