Science fiction is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals.

The emergence of science fiction became most evident in the West, where the social transformations caused by the Industrial Revolution first led wr...

The term science fiction was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates, the American publisher Hugo Gern...

Science fiction gained popularity in the 1950s because developments in technology, such as nuclear energy and space exploration, coupled with the e...

Science fiction differs from fantasy in that science fiction employs questions of scientific and technological plausibility while fantasy typically...

Space colonization, on the Moon, Mars or space stations, is widely debated. Some argue humans have a moral duty to save our species from extinction...