scifi

You will, having seen Bertrand Bonello’s new film, The Beast, walk away feeling as though you certainly saw something, but what? Ambitious, maddeningly vague,

Barbara Rush, who has died aged 97, was a poised, versatile actress who enjoyed a long Hollywood career, winning a Golden Globe in 1953 for New Star of the Year before becoming soap royalty via ABC’s influential Peyton Place (1964-69).

Who doesn’t love a well-written sci-fi series? Thanks to the curiosity about the unknown and unexplored technology, the genre is popular for keeping viewers glued to the screens. Hit franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien and The Matrix are some prime examples. However, sci-fi is no longer restricted to live-action...

The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars has stood atop the hills of Sherman Oaks for decades, with a façade lovingly fashioned like the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Carved into its faded orange exterior is an imagined history of flying ships and extraterrestrials, of tangled tendrils and tentacles, of creatures serpentlike and...

He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.

Netflix's new sci-fi show 3 Body Problem has had its fair share of positive reviews, but now it's got the seal of approval from The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson....

Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight...

From the far-flung reaches of space to epic magical worlds, these novels, novellas, and comics are the best Hugo award winners to read.

The Shimmer in Annihilation may have been sent to Earth to root out the shapeshifting alien from The Thing, disrupting its replication....

At 92 years old, William Shatner is opening up about his biggest regret. He took responsibility for "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" flopping with critics, as he starred and directed.

History repeats itself in this ingenious but surprisingly heartfelt sci-fi, which takes the premise of Groundhog Day and fashions from it a poignant statement about life and mortality. Refreshingly for the genre, it focuses on a middle-aged woman - a scientist-slash-physicist, even - whose 55th birthday and final breath will...

The great novels of the 1960s remain enjoyable because they got everything wrong.

a cautionary tale of corporatism gone awry, told lightheartedly, with robots.

Pournelle, Gingrich and Trump see a future that must be secured by authoritarian institutions that group together humanity’s best and prevent the rest from stifling them.

“The future of humanity is in her hands,” the opening subtitle reads during the trailer for Atlas, Netflix’s Sci-Fi thriller starring Jennifer Lopez, for which we can share the first trailer above....

Desert Road is a compelling thriller that transitions from mundane to mystical threats on a deserted California highway....

Arcadian, director Benjamin Brewer, along with writer Mike Nilon, ambitiously attempts to navigate the tumultuous waters of a post-apocalyptic narrative

The executive producer offered some details on how the second season had to be rewritten based on feedback from Paramount+:...

Our writer argues that, despite its flaws, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune: Part 2 hit at just the right time... and is illustrative of a bigger problem in Hollywood.

If you missed out on space camp, it's time to see if you qualify for the real thing.

Viewing the genre as a means to spread modern knowledge, Chinese novelists have been writing science-fiction stories since at least 1902.

It's storytime! Shingai Njeri Kagunda's Let the Star Explode from Lightspeed Magazine right here on io9.

An astronomy lesson on binary stars could begin with a series of complex diagrams and data or with a clip from the movie Star Wars where Luke Skywalker looks up at the sky of his home planet, Tatooine, and sees two suns shining. Which will more easily awaken the interest of a sleepy high school class?...

Star Wars Book Nook?...

Disney’s latest animated series, Iwájú, is one writer-director’s love letter to his home country.