Arnie said, "Get your a* to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future.

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

Something changed when, toward the end of elementary school, I discovered a whole new genre of story: fan fiction. It was 1998 or so, and I had fallen hard for Hanson, a band of boys just slightly ...

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 ...

Some years are better than others for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The last genuine blockbuster year was probably 2015, which gave us N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, Ken Liu’s The ...

The uncanny art world is a fertile ground for enthralling fiction. Here are the new books we could not put down. Gustave Courbet, A Young Woman Reading (ca. 1866/1868). Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage ...

What happens when historical fiction becomes a more accurate portrayal than the version of history given by mainstream historians?

Hazelight’s latest co-operative romp, Split Fiction, is the studio at its best. Having clearly built upon its spiritual predecessors (A Way Out and game of the year 2021, It Takes Two) — while ...

Zoe, one of the game’s dual protagonists, is a bubbly, extroverted writer who prefers creating whimsical fantasy tales, and her counterpart, Mio, is a reserved, introverted writer who enjoys crafting ...