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A psychiatrist reflects on Philip K. Dick’s substance abuse and mental health

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The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s

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Solaris movie review and film summary (1976)

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Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society

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The Worlds of Italo Calvino

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The Vindication of Ask Jeeves

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I am Neal Stephenson, sci-fi author, geek, and now, sword maker – AMA

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“Balkan Cosmology” by Bruce Sterling (2022)

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‘I had to grow up before I could cope with Middlemarch’

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The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018)

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Sci-fi illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001)

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Top science fiction short stories published in August

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Reading Soviet Sci-Fi at the End of the World

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Philip K. Dick’s dystopia

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The Last Question

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Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)

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The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019)

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Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson

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All You Zombies

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How a Book Is Made – Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Printer

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The Eyes Have It (1953)

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Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website

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Cory Doctorow: Science Fiction Is a Luddite Literature

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Sensor Network Technology in Vinge’s a Deepness in the Sky

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When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost

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“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated

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Goodnight Dune (2011)

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How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978)

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Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)

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It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question

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Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality

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The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]

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The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works

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Amazon.com product pages are down

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The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009)

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Ever Given Container Ship Fan Fiction

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Kazuo Ishiguro uses artificial intelligence to reveal the limits of our own

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How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series

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How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction

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Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021

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The Guy I Almost Was (1998)

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H. G. Wells reviews "Metropolis" (1927)

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Toys from Trash

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The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018)

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The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017)

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50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels

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Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]

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“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” turns 42

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How communist Bulgaria became a leader in technology, robotics and sci-fi (2018)

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Paean to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (2016)

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“Dune” Endures (2013)

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions

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The Secret History of Dune

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The Invincible – 1964 novel

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Ted Chiang: Realist of a Larger Reality

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The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]

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How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)

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John Brunner's “Stand on Zanzibar” spookily predicted today

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List of stories set in a future now past

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Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else

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What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future

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Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress

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Arthur C. Clarke’s eccentric and influential predictions

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‘12 Monkeys’: Why Terry Gilliam’s Movie Is Relevant Today

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Controlling the Spice, Part 1: Dune on Page and Screen

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The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the Waterbed

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Things Stanislaw Lem Predicted

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How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi

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Alex Garland’s cult novel The Beach, 20 years on

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Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction

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The Growing Emptiness of the “Star Wars” Universe

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Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert's DUNE

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The impossibly wide learning of Sabine Baring-Gould

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“Close to tears, he left at the intermission”: how Kubrick upset Clarke (2017)

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How Isaac Asimov shaped robotics and space exploration and predicted the Internet

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“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968

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Dude, You Broke the Future [video]

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Just own the damn robots

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Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Safer Drag On

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A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia–Molodezhi

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Lost Joys of the Screen Saver

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Pioneers of Soviet Computing [pdf]

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Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction

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The Case for HAL's Sanity

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‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story

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Asking the wrong questions

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He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary

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Compelling Science Fiction Issue 4

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As Batteries Keep Catching Fire, U.S. Safety Agency Prepares For Change

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Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)

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NORAD's Santa Tracker Began with a Typo and a Good Sport (2014)

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Interview with Ted Chiang

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Bringing Chinese Science Fiction to the West

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Is This Economist Too Far Ahead of His Time?

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Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation

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The Day the Moon Blew Up

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Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character

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Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction

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The Trip Planners: The Unusual Couple Behind Erowid

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The Author of Our Best SF Military Novel Explains the Future of War

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Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer

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Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Cthulhu

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Dune, 50 years on

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An Interview with Neal Stephenson

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They Took Our Myths

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The Machine Stops

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A New ‘Wrinkle in Time’

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'Mountaineer' Is a Must-Read of Soviet Sci-Fi

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The Photoshop of Sound

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Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s

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Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien

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The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture

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Home Computers Behind the Iron Curtain

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Liu Cixin's “The Three-Body Problem” Is Published in the US

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The Future According to Stanisław Lem

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XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story

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Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger

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Isaac Asimov's predictions 50 years on

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Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

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Frederik Pohl has died

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Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic

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Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal

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Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game

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He spent his life building a $1M stereo

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Show HN: Sink or Ship - ship your project in time, or else...

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Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students

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Google can search backwards

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The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)

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British hackers: stop voting for lizards; start voting for people today

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Google uses accelerometer API in Jules Verne Google Doodle

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Screenshot: "A Fire Upon the Deep" sequel (2011)

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A Cover Letter To Penny Arcade

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Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)

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The Eyes Have It (1953)

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Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure

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New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964–1983

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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

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Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life

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Show HN: Crunching 1,200 Authors' Favorite Reads of 2023

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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators

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A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016)

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J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books

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French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000

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Vernor Vinge has died

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The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws

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The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"

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It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it

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Paul Auster has died

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J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)

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Who Killed the World?

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The Later Years of Douglas Adams

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Asking the Wrong Questions (2017)

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