A woman walks past copies of "The Three-Body Problem" on display at a bookstore in Beijing on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. The series, written by former engineer Liu Cixin, helped Chinese science fiction ...

It could be a tale from science fiction itself: A machine that uses artificial intelligence to try to supplant authors working in the genre, turning out story after story without ever hitting writer’s ...

“I don’t want to read bot stories. I want to read stories that come out of actual imagination and experiences.” SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She and the ...

The first three months of covering the COVID-19 pandemic felt, by Tina Hesman Saey’s estimation, “closer to 300 years.” From February to April 2020, the Science News senior molecular biology writer ...

CHENGDU, China (AP) — For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi’s biggest annual event, was ...