The Weehawken Free Public Library invites adults aged 18 and up to participate in the Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club. The next meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday. During April, the group ...

Eli Nauda, the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society, stands in a room in Bartlett Hall where all the club’s books are now being temporarily stored. Credit: STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Sign ...

It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Such a statement requires not only justification but considerable elaboration. Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even ...

Young people who are hooked on watching fantasy or reading science fiction may be on to something. Contrary to a common misperception that reading this genre is an unworthy practice, reading science ...

Introduction: the state of the art / Hal W. Hall -- Science fiction at the Library of Congress / Judith Mistichelli -- The J. Lloyd Eaton Collection / George Slusser -- The Science Fiction Research ...

Chicago, as you’re aware, is the city of the future, the inevitable metropolis, the place the East Coasters will fall back to when Brooklyn sinks and West Coasters will retreat to when the Earth ...

There are well understood terms of engagement between the people who write for publication, on one hand, and the academics and critics who discuss it, on the other. Writers write. Then the academics ...

The science fiction of Joanna Russ. In her science fiction, the novelist offered not only an astringent critiques of the present but also bold visions of the future. “From now on, I will not trust ...