From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

It may feel like we were recently living in a science-fiction dystopia life — and in some ways, we were — but that doesn’t mean that we should simply avoid an entire genre of writing.

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago during a time of great advances in science. Since then authors have tried to make sense of their world by imagining what the future will look like.

Science fiction stories take place in a world that is different to our own. The story might be set in space, in the future and about new technology or a scientific innovation. Science fiction ...

“If there’s one thing that’s frustrated me about my writing career, it’s boxes and labels; it’s, Oh, you are a science fiction writer, never shall you do anything else,” Okorafor said.

Science fiction has always been a way to envision ... celebrated 1993 novel about a woman who feels others' pain, "I began writing the book with the thought that maybe what we needed was the ...