A passion for science made Wells famous. But he was driven by a longing for something more.

Denis Villeneuve’s film makes the complex world of “Dune” comprehensible through stunning visuals.

In her fiction, she questioned every social and sexual arrangement.

Don DeLillo’s and Jonathan Lethem’s new novels imagine the end of electronic communication.

The recent appearance of so-called monoliths in Utah and around the world taps into a deep-seated fascination.

The great novels of the 1960s remain enjoyable because they got everything wrong.

Out of the trauma of war, Wolfe found redemption in Catholicism and his voice in futuristic, philosophical novels.

Cuban science-fiction redefines the future in the ruins of a socialist utopia.

Kim Stanley Robinson and the novelists who want to build a better future through science fiction.

Robert A. Heinlein became increasingly right wing, and his novels suffered for it

October 13, 1979