Clarkesworld, an online sci-fi and fantasy magazine, closed its submissions portal after a deluge of AI-generated “stories.” Its editor says humans might not be ready for this technology. It seems ...

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing Science ...

Science fiction writer and editor Gautam Bhatia; and the cover of 'Between Worlds'. (Images via Instagram) Open call for submissions to the second in an annual anthology of Indian science fiction will ...

This is definitely on my reading list: in fact, I am hoping we might choose it for a future New Scientist Book Club read. Longlisted for the Booker already, it has been described by our sci-fi ...

Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre’s science fiction reflected an imaginative view of other worlds. (Illustration: SFWA / Microsoft Copilot / Media.io) Decades before the current debates over gender and ...

A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories. Latin American science fiction writers are leaving behind imported landscapes and story lines and ...

Those dastardly scientists are at it again, this time developing a neural chip that allows you to turn off sleep. Soon, everyone has one – and then it stops being possible to turn the chip off, and ...