Black-and-white movies might be easy to dismiss as a thing of the past, but some of the most forward-thinking science fiction stories were told through the medium that still hold up today. Early films ...

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and ...

Science Fiction Theatre was an early sci-fi anthology TV series, and though it became well known, it wasn’t the first. Technically, it was predated by the CBS anthology series Out There and the ABC ...

Weitekamp, Margaret A. 2007. "Early Science Fiction and the First Rocket Researchers." In After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age. Collins, Martin J., editor. 20 ...

Fascination with science-fiction worlds is baked deeply into the origins of film history. Beginning with Georges Méliès’ groundbreaking wizardry in 1902’s A Trip to the Moon, the genre’s possibilities ...

Frederik Pohl (1918-2013) recorded at the Octocon Science Fiction Convention, October 15-16, 1978. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson, for KPFA’s Probabilities ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...