A slate of new series aim to tap into kids’ shifting interests—and perhaps spark the next generation of scientists, inventors ...

Modern-day LLMs are "fiction machines," designed not to be truthful but to make sense. What can we expect from these machines, and what are their limitations?

Ahead of the film adaptation’s release, Weir talked to Popular Mechanics about creating accurate sci-fi tech, protagonist ...

Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters ...

Ahead of Amazon’s adaptation of Project Hail Mary, the book’s author discusses alien life, US space exploration and dealing with loneliness ...

The bestselling author discusses his inspiration, creative process, and favorite scientific tidbits behind the feature film.

Project Hail Mary” is an upcoming science fiction space-adventure film based on the book of the same name by author Andy Weir, who also wrote ...

The year 1740 was the crest of that wave of spiritual power called the Great Awakening. … The message of personal commitment and individual decision central to the Awakening reached a wider audience ...

In terms of modeling, Middle Earth was a little easier. Tolkien essentially wanted it to be a mythical version of Earth at ...

When considering famous authors and their works of science fiction and fantasy, many of us think first of straight white men. But if we expand our vision of what makes great fantasy, a whole universe ...

Editor’s note: Guest Columns and Letter to The Editors are pubished as submitted. Submission instructions are available at usustatesman.com. Last fall, USU’s newest Writing Fellows compared ...

A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...