Fantasy fiction provides more than escapism for young readers.

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

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

Microsoft is to fund a remake of cult BBC sci-fi series Blake's 7 for broadcast on its Xbox Live service, according to reports.

Tests could reveal whether we are part of a giant computer simulation — but the real question is if we want to know...

A short science fiction story of a man who searches for his lost wife.

Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume time travel is theoretically possible. Even so, the fact that we aren’t aware of any time travelers isn’t particularly surprising. Making a big change far in the past, one that would conclusively announce to the world that time travel is real, could potentially change history such that the time traveler would never be born in the first place.

The Doctor has tackled horror staples like vampires, werewolves, zombies, and demons, but also hundreds of original foes from all over the galaxy. We now present the scariest of the bunch!

Last month, the American Astronomical Society's 223rd meeting featured the announcement of a few breakthroughs: Using the Kepler space observatory, researchers had discovered a planet roughly the...

Cinematic saga captured in needle and thread in painstaking detail down to an impressive little embroidery Yoda

War, fate, and a broken walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story. A Collaboration Factory Production. Produced by Chris Bryant. Written & directed by Jesse Atlas

A messenger delivers a mysterious box to a wealthy man. The Gift is a Sci-Fi short with a savage chase sequence on it. Directed by Carl E. Rinsch.

One of the best films of 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her, concerns a man who falls in love with his computer’s operating system. It’s easy to imagine a film with a similar premise appearing in a different decade—extremely easy, actually—but it’s hard to imagine it taking the form it does in Her. Even factoring out Jonze’s unique imagination, and factoring in thoughtful exception

Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don't worry. It's perfectly safe. Written, Directed & Edited by Ruairi Robinson. Starring Max Records from "Where The Wild Things Are". Cinematography by Macgregor. Music by Olafur Arnalds courtesy of Erased Tapes. Visual effects were completed over a period of 9 months, of hell. There's a reason why you don't see too many wet CG characters in movies even with 100 million dollar budgets. It's really, really hard.

Worldforgers are in process of terraforming Europa, one of the largest moons in our Solar System. Dr. Strauss, planetary engineer, observes the squidlike forges manipulate the icy moon. Conquest of Europa is a 2013 Finnish scifi short (1:17min).

A man finds himself on a mysterious planet trapped in a game of death.

Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable 'Earth-like' planet in the Kepler-186f solar system, 795 light years away. It's been described as "a landmark on the road to discovering habitable planets" which has led to speculation that the human race could eventually 'move house' there one day. Not tempted? Well, how about one of these? We have a look at seven number more (fictional) planets we wouldn't mind living on...

John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker, in Star Wars: Episode VII, the much-anticipated relaunch of the George Lucas sci-fi franchise now owned by Disney.

After Order 66, every jedi is a hunted exile. A lone jedi knight evaded his former clone troopers, but is now pursued by bounty hunters. Jedi Knight, Exile is Star Wars fan (short) film shot created by Sampo Silvennoinen in 2012. It was featured in frontpages of both TheForce.net and Jedi News.