The 20th century has seen the growth of the social sciences and the "humane sciences" as one of its more important developments in speculative thought, a fact increasingly reflected in the concepts of ...

A sci-fi/fantasy movie might be an alien invasion blockbuster; a bloody sword-and-sorcery epic; or a quiet, reflective fable.

Science fiction imagines the impact of these trends on the social structures of the future. In contrast, sociologists focus on the roles that economics, the different ways of structuring a society ...

This question of consciousness is particularly acute when dealing with the audience for a literature like science fiction, with its pretensions towards social criticism. Just what critique of society ...

Because science fiction spans the spectrum from the plausible ... the ansible) or to enable social commentary, the way H. G. Wells uses his time machine to take the reader to the far future ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through ... we already have the technical ability to solve the twin crises of climate and energy. Now, we need new, robust social and ...

The Animal Kingdom writer/director Thomas Cailley blends traditional French social realism with one major element of science fiction (humans turning into animals) to create a dystopian drama that ...