The more a reader is exposed to science fiction stories, ... Simple picture books like “Farm Fresh Cats” by Scott Santoro rely on familiar ideas like farms and cats to help readers reconsider ...

Powell is the British Science Fiction Award-winning author of Stars and Bones and Embers of War, and his latest novel sounds ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp ...

Story by Charlie Jane Anders • 37m 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 ...

All these science fiction authors were very attuned to the science that was going on around them and got really great ideas from all the weird discoveries that were being made.

The pattern of science fiction anticipating, or at least dovetailing with, cutting-edge real-world ideas is not new: In a 2016 article for The Atlantic, Edward Simon explored the sci-fi that was ...

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow. If, like me, you are a fan of the science fiction author Ted Chiang, you ...