Science fiction and fantasy books have played into the trend, with recent bestsellers such as “Starter Villain,” “Assistant ...

One of science fiction’s preeminent preoccupations, the settlement, and eventual terraforming, of Mars has been a part of the ...

Science-fiction writer H.G. Wells had a knack for predicting the future of warfare—including the atom bomb in his 1914 novel The World Set Free, according to Andrew Peck, an interdisciplinary ...