Ella Baxter’s new novel reminds us that mediocrity is far more common than genius.

In this month’s sci-fi picks, time loops, zombie apocalypses and robot/dog friendships.

We would like to give a big thank you to everyone who participated in the 18 th Annual ESSS Poster Conference last Thursday. We had a good turnout, excellent posters, and meaningful dialogue. The ...

The best new science fiction books of 2024 Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024 Jane Rogers ...

Villa Cavrois / Robert Mallet Stevens. Image © Fred Romero, via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 More than just a family home, Villa Cavrois was designed as an architectural ...

A major retrospective of Art Deco darling Tamara de Lempicka has opened at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, ranging from some of her most celebrated paintings to lesser-known drawings that ...

Netflix has pulled a poster for season two of its popular show Arcane as fans noticed that AI had been used to make the promotional art. Arcane is made by Riot Games and French animation studio ...

It was first built in 1956, but was designed to imitate the earlier Art Deco style of the 1920s and 30s. With a white rendered exterior, classic curved bay windows, and elaborate cornicing ...

There is a long tradition in science fiction of aliens and assorted creatures as metaphorical expressions — among the boldest examples is the monster from the Id in “Forbidden Planet,” from ...