The Museum of Science Fiction is well on its way to becoming a brick and mortar museum in Washington DC. Now, they’re going to be launching a scholarly journal: The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, ...

The recent controversy surrounding Elon Musk‘s robotic creations and their alleged resemblance to designs from the 2004 film I, Robot is just the latest chapter in the long and fascinating history of ...

It takes a lot of energy to perceive the world, and evolution favors energy efficiency. As a result, the human brain does a terrific job of learning to filter things out. We lose the details of our ...

In this first episode, Dominic looks at science fiction's enduring fascination with outer space, from Jules Verne's pioneering 19th-century vision of a voyage to the moon to the galaxy far, far away ...

Four centuries ago, Johannes Kepler established three laws of planetary motion that accurately describe how planets in the solar system orbit the Sun. That might be enough for most; however, befitting ...

What prompted the idea for the course? For most of its history, science fiction was a disreputable, throwaway genre. But sources of culture and thought aren’t just found in classic literature or in ...

Science fiction is everywhere in our 21st century culture, from superheroes to spaceships. But there was a time it was an odd subculture. But those in what was an eccentric circle of literary pioneers ...

"Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential works from ...