If you've ever wanted to be the next H.G. Wells, this is your chance. Army Training and Doctrine Command is hosting its inaugural Mad Scientist Science Fiction Writing Contest, according to a TRADOC ...

Geeks and science fiction. You can almost track the rise in influence of the former by the inexorable pop-culture spread of the latter. So it was with a sense of destiny that I leapt into a six-week ...

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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine.

The Board of Directors of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA) has voted to add Game Writing as a new Nebula Award category. The Nebulas and Hugos are the most prestigious awards ...

While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor said. By Michael Levenson It could be a tale from science fiction itself: a ...

A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories. Latin American science fiction writers are leaving behind imported landscapes and story lines and ...

You can roll your eyes all you want at the aliens and spaceships and dimension-hopping shenanigans of classic science fiction. You can deride sci-fi as "genre" writing, and you can choose to read only ...