Every year in July, writers and readers of fiction gather for Readercon, in Burlington, Massachusetts. The conference, which has been held every summer for the past quarter century (at least), is ...

Science-fiction cinema has grown in both popularity and scope since its initiation into the larger culture. We’ve now entering an age in which sci-fi films are categorized into subsections of tone, ...

Science fiction’s greatest authors have brilliant ideas, storytelling mojo… and plenty of stubbornness. Many of the field’s greatest writers were buried in rejection slips, before they finally broke ...

It was Grant Storey's love of languages that drew him to computer programming in middle school and Latin in high school. But it was his time at Princeton that allowed him to examine the intersections ...

Once a niche pursuit, science fiction is now a global phenomenon. The British Library in London delves into its history and significance in its new exhibition, Out of this World: Science Fiction but ...

A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they’ve worn ...

From Galileo to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, catch up on some of the science classics you’ve always intended to read (or pretended to have read). Plus, the first COVID-19 death in the US might have ...

A version of this article appears in the November 2, 1929 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers to ...

A version of this article appears in the March 9, 1929 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers to ...