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Was Voltaire the First Sci-Fi Author?

Ada Palmer is a professor of European history at the University of Chicago. Her four-volume science fiction series, Terra Ignota,…

Cass R. Sunstein is one of America’s foremost legal scholars; he is also a big fan of science fiction authors…

Julia Galef, host of the Rationally Speaking podcast and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, is not impressed with…

In the Amazon original series Upload, a young programmer named Nathan Brown uploads his mind to virtual reality after his…

Denis Loubet was the first artist hired at Origin Systems, where he created dozens of paintings and drawings for the…

The new Netflix series Blood of Zeus presents a fresh spin on Greek mythology, featuring familiar characters such as Poseidon,…

The HBO series His Dark Materials, based on the novels by Philip Pullman, recently concluded a strong second season. Fantasy…

The new anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 includes stories from leading authors such as Victor LaValle,…

The Apple II computer ceased production in 1993, but that hasn’t stopped fans like Mark Lemmert from continuing to create…

In Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham and the rest of the Discovery crew have been transported into…