The power of words Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which begins with a form of sci-fi, led to the ban on DDT in agriculture, showing how sci-fi can influence real-world science. (Courtesy: ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...

Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of Jules Verne onward, has envisioned technological advances, societal ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the May 10, 1980 issue of America as “Science Fiction and Religion.” Science fiction and religion walking—or jetting—hand in hand? Shades of the ...