Stories of a magical empire, a rift in the heavens, a plan to colonize Mars and more.

What were the year's top sci-fi shows? Andor and Severance are still up there, but our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley also has ...

In this month’s picks, multidimensional comedy and extraterrestrial drama. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Stream it on Amazon Prime Video. The last time a dryly zany comedy from New Zealand involving ...

“Deep Space Homer” is about as classic as The Simpsons episodes come. The Season 5 episode launches Homer into space as part of a special NASA program made to help boost ratings, and Homer fails his ...

The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.

I love Omni magazine. For those too young to remember, it was a lavish, shiny publication dedicated to science, science ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: new V/H/S/ movie time, which often marks the official start of the spooky season. For the last few years, Shudder has blessed us with new yearly takes on ...

Our columnist takes a look at recent books by Sofia Samatar, Vajra Chandrasekera and Emet North. By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a ...

We’re lucky to be alive during a time when science fiction and fantasy authors are publishing bold, provocative stories that expand our ideas of how to talk about the future and the nature of power.

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we manufacture a nightmarish future and refuse to heed the warnings so ...