The early 1960s was a period of great excitement. Space travel had moved from the theoretical to actuality with President Kennedy’s promise to land on the moon by the end of the decade. Randall Ensley ...

The one-of-a-kind 1972 film from director Andrei Tarkovsky has plenty of striking visuals of its own. Thanks to the near-perfect 1961 novel from Stanislaw Lem, the story of an intelligent, bewildering ...

In 1954, experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger unleashed Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome. What his 38-minute opus lacked in narrative, it more than made up for with a flamboyance of style. And though ...

Westbury Arts launched into the cosmos on Sunday, Oct. 5, for a science fiction art show, curated by one of the community’s very own artists. The exhibition at 255 Schenck Ave. featured 20 guest ...

Red pill or blue pill? Utopia or dystopia? At PST Art — the largest art event in the U.S.— two major shows ask what science fiction says about the modern world. By Evan Nicole Brown Culture Writer “We ...

“I have a lot of questions about how the future might look, and I don’t want an algorithm to draw them. So let’s do it instead.” With that sentence, artist Scott Listfield tasked a group of artists ...

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Stories of the regulation and weaponization of telepaths are nearly as old as sci-fi itself. In 1953, Best Novel at the first ...

Adam Rowe's new book Worlds Beyond Time (subtitle: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s) makes a rather bold claim: that '70s sci-fi art was "the peak of artistic achievement". Mind you, if you're a fan of the ...

From Godzilla Minus One to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, here are the best sci-fi movies from each year, between ...