Many of the technological achievements in the last few decades were actually ideas prophetically described in science ... to fiction’s capacity to spark imagination and those with technical ...

If I’m forced to suggest a single technical fantasy to become ... is perhaps the most vital piece of science fiction's offerings: the instruction manual. While any inventor can develop a device ...

49-year-old technical writer based in Seattle. Every few years, Chiang comes out with a new short story that sweeps science fiction awards, including the Hugo and Nebula. But he's only published ...

Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work.

The most obvious examples of technology in science fiction tend to focus on artificial intelligence, communication and transport. But futuristic chemistry is embraced by sci-fi writers too. For ...

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 ...

One of science fiction's jobs is to give humanity a map of where we're headed. From Jules Verne to William Gibson, sci-fi authors have described their versions of the future, and how people might ...

I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Today, the number of science fiction and fantasy magazine titles is higher than at any other point in history. That’s more ...

Gunn won a Hugo in 1983 for 'Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction.' By Aaron Couch Film ... I’d rather be out mowing the lawn, doing manual labor, than trying to wrench ideas out ...