But science fiction doesn’t just illuminate philosophy — in fact, the genre grew out of philosophy, and the earliest works of science fiction were philosophical texts.

Others have also waded in over the years; Annalee Newitz included Star Wars in a list of 10 science-fiction works that are really fantasy at io9, while author Brian Clegg says Star Wars is only ...

In the science fiction text, however, the protagonist wakes in a bunk on a spaceship, before walking into a dining room that's filled with humans, aliens, and androids.

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For over a century, science fiction filmmaking has presented us with depictions of our future cities. Some have been bright, shiny and positive, while others have been dark, dirty and rough. As we ...

Now that there's an open call for people to go to Mars for Dutch reality television, it's time to think up some science-fiction-meets-science-reality shows. Here are a few.

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. A foundational science fiction text published in English in 1924, We follows the character D-503 through the “One State,” a totalitarian regime that prizes logic and reason ...

In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction — in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond — to see how storytellers and innovators are ...

A premiere science fiction publication, Clarkesworld, ... TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers tested seven different AI text detectors, finding that none of them were particularly effective.

There's been a lot of debate lately over whether science fiction needs accurate science — or whether it's even worth discussing the accuracy of science in ...

Happymeal has announced 16-bit-style retro-futuristic science-fiction text adventure game OMEGA 6: The Video Game for Switch.It is based on the manga OMEGA 6 written by Takaya Imamura, who was the ...