Features Science fiction and literary reputation: looking deeper. The tired debate over sci-fi being less clever than other genres needs to be put to bed.

Science fiction has captured readers' imaginations for as long as we have wondered about the future. From H.G. Wells’ and ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT, science fiction and other literary magazines have been getting bad AI-generated stories. Outlets like Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Flash Fiction Online have seen an ...

One can only keep hoping for more general awareness of what science fiction has to offer to literature. NOTES 1. Editors’ note: for more information about Liu Cixin, a leading figure in Chinese ...

One can only keep hoping for more general awareness of what science fiction has to offer to literature. NOTES 1. Editors’ note: for more information about Liu Cixin, a leading figure in Chinese ...

When will “the literary establishment” start taking science fiction more seriously? Everybody from Michael Chabon to David Hartwell wants to know. But would most readers really be happy if ...

Why hasn't a science fiction novel ever won England's prestigious Booker Prize? Kim Stanley Robinson asked the question in an essay in New Scientist magazine, and now it's become a war of words ...

Science fiction has become the last bastion for the literature of ideas, says journalist Clive Thompson in Wired. The realistic portrayals of contemporary life that win literary prizes have ...

Passive, dependent and submissive women do exist. In fiction, at least. The belief that many of the stereotypes associated ...

Fiction was simply “fiction” unless it fell within a small set of categories: mystery, romance, science-fiction, ... In the 1980s, “literary fiction” was suddenly everywhere: ...

One of science fiction’s preeminent preoccupations, the settlement, and eventual terraforming, of Mars has been a part of the futurist outlook since Ray Bradbury’s novel on the idea in the 1950s.