"Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers but they are firmly matters of science fact." Born in 1942, Stephen was clever, curious and loved mathematics!

Only a portion of Ms. Han’s fiction is available in English, but what we have falls along a spectrum between allegory and extreme realism. On one pole is “The Vegetarian” (2007), about a ...

In this month’s sci-fi picks, what’s worse? Coming face-to-face with the apocalypse or with our older selves? By Elisabeth Vincentelli Rent or buy it on most major platforms. Ben Goodger’s ...

(Or a mix of both.) But for those who like to indulge in books that are grounded in real-world figures and history, the historical fiction genre is here with a positively sweeping array of ...