Any cultural critic can complain, as I did in last weekend’s column, about the lack of creativity in American popular culture ...

The author discusses her story “Revision.” ...

Medieval historians David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele illuminate what happens when a once unshakeable political and cultural order breaks down, and long-suppressed tensions flare into deadly ...

Like their spherical cousins, Dyson rings remain for now, a popular idea in science fiction yet they are starting to appear more and more in scientific debates. The concept of the ring is similar ...

While comparisons with lynch mobs and medieval rustici may be constructive, they should not overshadow the massive, multidisciplinary contemporary study of social action and crowd psychology ...

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is a ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. It has been a sadly light year for epic-scale science fiction, but casual readers and hardcore fans alike will be ...

That idea carries through so many of this year’s best science-fiction books, which are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on our troubled planet or in the ...