Plot: With the Civil War raging, Abraham Lincoln mourns his dead 11-year-old son, Willie, in a Georgetown cemetery, returning to the crypt to hold the boy’s body. With Willie’s spirit in a purgatory — ...

We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sanderson to  the latest from ...

The finalists for the 31st Audie Awards have been announced, per a statement shared by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) ...

AUTHOR: May Cobb NARRATOR: Malin Akerman, Allyson Ryan, Alexandra Hunter, James Fouhey PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Audio (Jan.) RUN TIME: 10 hrs and 18 mins ISBN: 9781464283475 From the author of The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Stuck in ski traffic on Interstate 70. On board a five-hour flight (with a layover) to a sunny destination. During a road trip to the Midwest to see family ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi concepts depart significantly from established physics. A ...

Stephen King’s 1978 novel “The Stand” was a seminal work of apocalyptic horror, republished in 1990 with 400 added pages that had been cut earlier. “The End of the World as We Know It” (Gallery, 800 ...

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So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

In this month’s picks, there is cloud busting in Peru, a shadowy astronaut drama, doomsday preppers in New Zealand and more. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Rent or buy it on most major platforms. The first ...