The Guardian | Science Fiction
Including ‘Wuhan-400’, the deadly virus invented by Dean Koontz in 1981, novelists have long been fascinated by pandemics.
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Earlier classic literature gives us an opportunity to consider how pandemics have been managed previously.
‘World War Z’ imagined a mysterious virus being downplayed by Beijing. Sound familiar?
A poll by the Pew Research Centre found that 44% of Americans were pessimistic about what lies ahead.
Wall Street Journal | Science Fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson’s novels imagine environmental collapse in arresting precision—and humanity finding a way forward.
The lack of galactic grandmothers in visions of the future reflects ageism and sexism in the here and now.
The New Yorker | Science Fiction
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to a strange new world: the present.
The Guardian | Science Fiction
Researchers say quality determines comprehension – not genre.
NBC News | Artificial Intelligence
‘Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end.’
Science Fiction | Futurecasting
Genetic modification, space stations, wind power, artificial wombs, video phones, wireless internet, and cyborgs were all foreseen by “futurologists” from the 1920s and 1930s.
The TV series may have reached its conclusion, but with two books to finish as well as a host of spinoff projects, the writer of the novel series that spawned it is busier than ever.
Author John Lanchester’s dystopian thriller shows what happens when the parent generation doesn’t react to the climate crisis.
The New York Times | Science Fiction
“The author of Dhalgren and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world.”
The Irish Times | Science Fiction
“Now science fiction, far from being this little persecuted genre that it was in the 1950s, has conquered the world.” -GRRM
To write his new novel, Red Moon, the sci-fi author became an expert on lunar colony tech.
Novelists compete with reality to describe how life in the UK could be about to change.
Sci-Fi Author Ted Chiang on Our Relationship to Technology, Capitalism, and the Threat of Extinction
GQ | Ted Chiang
The Hugo award-winning icon discusses his new collection and the evolving role technology plays in our lives.
A recent lecture in which Sterling puts himself and his cyberpunk colleagues in context in a world where much of the science fiction has become reality.
In his new book, Fall, the author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon,and The Diamond Age, looks to the digital afterlife, and beyond.
Nature.com | Books | Neal Stephenson
Heaven is in the Cloud in this new tome. Paul McEuen watches in wonder.
