This year we read tons of books. Whether we bought a hard copies at the local bookstore or checked out audiobooks from a library app, or consumed them via e-reader. Lots new authors wrote fantastic ...

Three, two, one, let’s hit it! (Cue the big brass from “Tank!” the opening credits song from Cowboy Bebop.) That’s right: The time has finally come for Netflix’s much-anticipated live-action series ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Fire and ice, high and low, near and far, fantasy and science fiction. The following pairs might all appear to be opposites, but the last of those are not as incomparable as you might think. Yes, the ...

H. G. Wells certainly belongs in the pantheon of great science fiction writers. However, Charles Johnson’s review of “The Young H. G. Wells” (Dec. 12) goes too far in crediting him, with Jules Verne ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Science fiction has historically been considered a niche genre, one in which far-flung scenarios ...

If sci-fi mirrors the present instead of imagining the future, then 2021 should have seen a wave of pandemic stories. It didn’t happen, perhaps because authors are so aware of all their many ...