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 ...

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Science fiction is not often treated as literature worth seriously engaging with, with the genre dismissed as a “lower” form of escapist art lacking depth or “literary merit.” Science ...

The habit of collecting books began early for John Clute, renowned author, literary critic and book collector. Inside a book ...

Across the 17-year history of Clarkesworld, a renowned literary magazine of science fiction and fantasy, authors have speculated about how evolving, futuristic technology will impact our world.

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

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago during a time of great advances in science. Since then authors have tried to make sense of their world by imagining what the future will look like ...

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: ...

Just as science fiction, once dismissed as merely “popular,” has enjoyed increasing acceptance as literary, historical fiction has become widely critically recognized.

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.