From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H ...

Nuclear-powered planes may sound like science fiction, but they've been the subject of serious research for decades. As ...

Having worked in his fair share of sci-fi films, Matt Damon has some authority to speak on who's the best to carry on the baton of the genre, and he has a name.

As adults, these large snakes are better known for their slow, lumbering gait, but the researchers discovered that young ...

In Stephenson’s novel, the Primer looks like a hardcover book, but each of its “pages” is really a screen display that can show animations and text, and it responds to its user in real time via AI.

The 19th-century novelist once took readers aboard the submarine Nautilus to explore the uncharted depths of the sea. Over ...

Ashwin Sanghi returns with The Ayodhya Alliance, a bold, globe-trotting thriller that fuses mythology, science, and ...

Doctor Who star Peter Davison, who played the Time Lord from 1982 to 1984, has criticised recent series of the long-running ...

Recent AI advances in voice tech, wearables and education echo the sci-fi world of The Diamond Age, raising hopes and concerns for the future.

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American journalist Walter Isaacson’s 2023 biography of Tesla CEO delves into the good, bad and the ugly of the ‘awkward boy’ ...

When science fiction author Paolo Bacigalupi published his best-selling novel The Water Knife about a water crisis and the ...