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Frederick Barr, who posts on Flickr as Modern Fred, has been posting a flood of “Fantastic Mid-Century Science Fiction Pulp Illustrations” for months now, interspersed with book covers, Googie ...
We tend to think science fiction magazines started when Hugo Gernsback introduced the concept of “scientificion.” But for the quarter-century leading up to the Russian Revolution, the Russians ...
Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor ...
In the second of historian Jess Nevins' series on science fiction pulps, he takes us through the Golden Age of science fiction, from the late 1930s through the "last efflorescence of the pulps" in ...
The science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld says it has been bombarded with AI-mage stories. Its publisher says it's part of a rise of side hustle culture online.
Alan Tudyk's career includes a lot of fantastic science fiction roles, and his performance as Harry Vanderspeigle in Resident Alien is one of his most impressive.
In his new book " Astounding," coming out today (Oct. 23), Alec Nevala-Lee follows four titans of the golden age of science fiction who guided the genre during its formative years. His look into ...
“Ramesh Nathan spun fantastic tales about space travel technology and advanced robotics to entice investors into funding his company, but all he had to offer was science fiction,” federal ...
Lavender notes that the dictionary quotations, derived largely from mid-20th century pulp magazines, don’t reflect the diversity of the science fiction world.
In the mid-1920s Hugo Gernsback, editor of Amazing Stories, coined the term “scientifiction,” an ugly mouthful that soon morphed into “science fiction.” Before then, speculative novels and ...
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook ...