June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a ...

By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing Science fiction is the business of imagining the future, but reading Han Song, one of China’s leading writers of the genre, can sometimes feel like reading ...

While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a science-fiction fan’s imagination. The first planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system began to be ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined worlds like these.

If summer brings the sunny promise of more reading leisure time, what could be better than a whole series of books? I’ve picked out three in various stages of completion: choose your own level ...

Though the series’ protagonist is an alien, the show’s science fiction elements were relatively subtle in the early seasons. Harry spends as much time investigating the murder of the town’s ...

What’s your personality type? If you are an introvert you’re in good company; Barack Obama, JK Rowling are introverts ...

Less well-known is its link to an odd, pioneering science fiction novel. A stout black jar of Bovril with a cheery red top lurks in many a British kitchen, next to tins of treacle and boxes of tea.

But perhaps his most underappreciated accomplishment was writing what some deem the first work of true science fiction. Johannes Kepler, depicted here in an engraving made centuries after his ...

The possible merger of humans and machines has been a fascination for science fiction writers since the mid-20th century. With the proliferation of computers and the development of artificial ...