It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” ...

“Dianetics” is to Scientologists what the Bible is to Christians or what the “Art of the Deal” is to the worst person you have ever met. It has been sold worldwide with the souls of the buyers safely ...

But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. Writers may find the future appealing precisely because it can’t be known, a black box ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...