Sci-fi is exactly like rock music. Depending on who you ask, different people believe different definitions of science fiction apply. For most, concocting the secret formula for "real" science fiction ...

Machines that exhibit capabilities beyond what is known in the current era. Today's science fiction becomes tomorrow's products, and when one contemplates the magic inside today's chips, we are truly ...

What does the future hold? 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 ...

The new online Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction probes the speculative corners of the lexicographic universe. By Jennifer Schuessler “Warp speed” may be a term of the moment, thanks to the ...

SCIENCE-FICTION is a form of prophecy. Normally, there is ;t lag of five to as much as one hundred vears between the discovery of a fact in the laboratory and the application of that fact in ...