Contact, Children of Men, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all among the most realistic hard sci-fi movies of all time.

An award-winning novel by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary is one of the most successful sci-fi books of the 2020s, and its movie adaptation, which premiered on March 20th, already has a near-perfect ...

Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, two major sub-genres that divide sci-fi — hard sci-fi and speculative (or soft) sci-fi — and most of the time, the delineation between the two is ...

We all (I hope) love books, but a spoken phrase permits nuances denied to its written form. Take, for example, "science fiction." I am saying the words aloud, but you cannot tell if my tone conveys ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...

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 ...

With this month marking Dune’s 60th anniversary, CU Boulder’s Benjamin Robertson discusses the book’s popular appeal while highlighting the dramatic changes science fiction experienced following its ...