George R.R. Martin, Martha Wells and other writers shared backstories about their work at Worldcon, the world's premier ...

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago during a time of great advances in science. Since then authors have tried to make sense of their world by imagining what the future will look like ...

BOOKS IN REVIEW A Collection of Unreprinted Pieces by H.G. Wells H.G. Wells. Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction. Edited by Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes. Berkeley: University of ...

There are so many competing definitions of “science fiction” that we could be here all day arguing about which one is correct. But back in 1909, a writer named Maurice Renard wrote an essay ...

Style, Vol. 47, No. 2, Early Science Fiction, Old English Narrative Prose, and Schema Theory (Summer 2013), pp. 137-167 (31 pages) This essay examines the range of framing devices used by the authors ...

We tend to think science fiction magazines started when Hugo Gernsback introduced the concept of "scientificion." But for the quarter-century leading up to the Russian Revolution, the Russians ...