Readers say coin commemorating the author of The War of the Worlds gives his alien tripod a fourth leg and The Invisible Man the wrong kind of hat

My approach to world-building is a bit smoke and mirrors – there’s only as much as you need to carry the story. I think of it as one of those sets they used to have for cowboy films: the facades look good, but if you walk around the back, it’s all props and plywood. I don’t want to sound lazy, but I want to do as little as possible. I don’t need to know how the sewage system works to tell a story about someone on another planet.

Authors of books tied to big film franchises such as Star Wars stopped receiving checks after Disney acquired Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox.

Scientist, Hugo Award winner, and prolific science fiction author and editor Ben Bova passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the age of 88, Tor.com is able to confirm. The author of more than …

Total Recall is being re-released on its 30th birthday. With its economical, fast-paced narrative embedded in a spectacular cinematic world, it is a masterpiece of late 20th century Hollywood.

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At a time when most fantasy series are going as big as possible, the Ridley Scott–produced HBO Max series gets back to the basics of science-fiction storytelling, and is all the better for it.

Director Denis Villeneuve's adaptation provokes mixed reactions among Ars staffers.

"A collaborative guide, one that was written and kept up to date by the people who used it, in real time, might be a neat idea. I just didn't really realise that such a thing might be possible in my lifetime or how powerful such a thing might be." - Douglas Adams

Possibly the coolest creepiest Steampunk taxidermy creatures you will ever behold...

Fantasy fiction provides more than escapism for young readers.

Charlie Brooker is spending time in quarantine writing material that is much lighter than the darkness of "Black Mirror."

We caught up with legendary artist Hajime Sorayama at his Tokyo studio to delve inside his inimitable, chrome-plated world.

Space opera fantasy! Wow! Humanity joining the intergalactic community has been a disaster for Bala, the magical creatures of the galaxy: they’ve been exploited, enslaved and ground down for parts. Now the Century Summit is approaching, when humans will be judged by godlike aliens.

A young writer wrote a controversial bit of military science fiction about sexual politics. The fallout was nuclear.

Sci-fi movies available to stream on Netflix include classics like Forbidden Planet, indie gems like Under the Skin and a couple of Star Wars films.

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's crazed, over-the-top, post-modern sci-fi satire, the Illuminatus! trilogy is slated to become a TV series.

René Auberjonois, a prolific actor best known for the TV shows “Benson” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” has died. He was 79.