While they might seem like pure science fiction, space habitats have been treated as a serious subject of study by academics for a long time. Back in 1975, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Stanford ...

space guns and rockets in almost any toyshop. In 50-odd science fiction magazines, space travel is a favorite theme. Eight comic strips and at least two TV programs are flying through space.

This August, the magazine published its first issue, “The Great Reversal.” “The entirety of Cortex is a big thought experiment,” said Feng, who now serves as Cortex’s editor-in-chief. Feng’s interest ...

Space scientists who invited him to address ... But exposure to such U.S. science-fiction magazines as Astounding Stories and Amazing Stories in the early 1930s really ignited his imagination ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the May 10, 1980 issue of America as “Science ... fiction. God may appear as Yawa Eloem, Jesus as an astronaut, or Ezekiel's fiery wheel as a ...

While science fiction hasn’t been covered often in the ... Arts that priests would be central to any colonization effort in space. “Priests stood with Columbus and Magellan on the journeys ...

while China’s nascent space program launched its first satellites into orbit. Regional magazines such as Chengdu’s Science Fiction World mushroomed. But in the early 1980s, Beijing initiated ...