The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.

Octavia Butler is undoubtedly one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time ... a background of a war-torn continent under the control of a Christian fundamentalist fascist state.

When Alida Guo first discovered Liu Cixin’s groundbreaking sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem in high school, she was captivated. The plot proved so irresistible that she hid a copy behind her ...

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 ...

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we manufacture a nightmarish future and refuse to heed the warnings so ...

Over the past ten years, Dr Potenza's research efforts have focused on pathological gambling and other impulse control disorders and their relationships with other psychiatric disorders ...

Sci-fi novels reflect cultural anxieties through themes like climate crisis and AI, shaking readers to their core. Some great ...

His quest for answers takes him and his crew across continents and into space, blending real-world science with a gripping sci-fi mystery that keeps fans hooked.

"Snowglobe," written by Soyoung Park and translated by Joungmin Lee Comfort, is a sci-fi YA novel about uncovering the secrets of a climate-controlled city called Snowglobe. It was originally ...