Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on a reread, Emily H. Wilson looks at how it holds up ...

Writers may find the future appealing ... be a way of getting at that experience.” In the early part of the 20th century, American science fiction tended to present a positive image of a future ...

A page from an early manuscript of Arthur C ... and poetic paper fantasies made up by science fiction writers, especially one lone genius with an aqualung and a sarong. As decades pass, it ...

At this time, submarines are only in the very early stages of scientific ... It establishes Ballard as a major British writer of the “New Wave” of science fiction. His stories bring ...

In effect, science-fiction writers critically examined the concept ... Such visions of space communities became attractive in the early 1970s, because new evidence indicated that all other worlds ...

The world we carve with our blood remains a world of people. It is in the face of these realities, not in spite of them, that I discover the gift of world builders and science fiction. Writers imagine ...

Writers deemed worthy of entire brief chapters on their ... Cinema, Comics, Dark Fantasy, Early Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Fandom, Feminism, Indigenous Mythology, and so forth. Although ...

A relatively early series of articles on sf has been collected in Barry N. Malzberg’s The Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties (1982). The pieces gathered here were written in 1979/80 ...