Things are not looking good for Luc Besson's sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The expensive film was obliterated at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, falling in fifth place with only $17 million against a reported $180 million production budget.

The year's not even close to over, and we already have a growing list of great sci-fi reads.

Star Wars Within a Minute: The Making of Episode III lavishes attention on the process of making Revenge of the Sith.

It's real and it premieres this fall.

Earlier today, the BBC announced a number of new shows, including a three-part series based on H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds. The show is scheduled to go into production next spring, and it appears that, unlike most modern adaptations, it will be set in the Victorian era.

William Gibson’s science fiction is so eerily prophetic that sometimes it seems as if he’s creating the future, not just imagining it.

Another regeneration is on the cards - but which Time Lords have had the most memorable transformation to date?

Truth and consequences.

“The truth is out there. You just have to listen.”

These videos make you think that you’ve wasted your life on work and relationships, when you could be spending it on Star Wars.

Amazon blocked sales for The Corroding Empire, a scifi book from Vox Day’s conservative publishing company Castalia House, because the cover bore an uncanny resemblance to John Scalzi’s latest book, The Collapsing Empire. And it wasn’t a coincidence.

From lightsabers to proton packs, these cinematic icons are a magnificent obsession.

This week, John Timmer and I discuss suspension of disbelief, tropes, and lots more.

Comments made by Donald Trump’s adviser have been compared to the classic dystopian novel, pushing it to become the sixth best-selling book on Amazon

We’ve already taken a look at what novels are hitting bookshelves this month, but 2017 promises to be a huge year for science fiction and fantasy literature as a whole. There’s going to be some...

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Predicting the future is hard. It’s nearly impossible to know what technological marvels await in the next few years, let alone the next eight decades. Undaunted, we’ve put together a list of 10 super-advanced technologies that should be around by the year 2100. By George Dvorsky.

The Chicago Cubs are in the World Series for the first time in decades. The team’s losing streak is legendary: it hasn’t won the title since 1908, and last made it to the Series in 1945. It’s a...

As Ian McEwan wrote: "The rules of time travel have been written not by scientists but by storytellers." Here are some of the best time travel books around.

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