While movies like "Star Wars" and "Alien" are what most people think of with 1970s sci-fi films, there were lesser-known ...

Although revered today, classic sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and The Thing were widely misunderstood and underappreciated ...

Another genre that has experienced something of a golden run throughout 2025, though, has been science fiction. Featuring ...

Science fiction in 2025 has settled into a confident, highly visible phase. This is no longer a genre pleading for legitimacy or hiding its ideas behind dense w ...

It’s always delightful to watch talented authors make old tropes fresh; perhaps that’s what makes ELLE’s picks from this year ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

The purpose of the sci-fi genre is to offer a glimpse of what's possible, and there were many particularly prescient science fiction films in the 1990s. The genre itself has roots that go back ...

Dungeons and Dragons has skyrocketed in popularity in the last five or so years, introducing a host of new players to the joy of tabletop role-playing games. After playing D&D for a while, some ...

There are a ton of different subgenres within fiction. If you want to dive into a novel to escape to another world, there are seemingly endless ways to do just that. Some genres (and subsequent ...

Professor Sunyoung Park curated five display cases that feature science fiction multimedia for the “Sixty Years of South Korean Science Fiction” exhibition, which is on view in the East Asian Library ...

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