6) Frack/Frak The fascination with swear words that plagues middle schoolers every year can also be found in the mind of science fiction writers. (After all, if you could put a couple of words ...

Write and then post your very own six-word science fiction mini-epics below, and then all there’s left to do is to start reading and star all your very favorites. I’ll be highlighting the best ...

It does seem all but inarguably true about science fiction, though, that the genre radiates neologisms (new words) and neosemes (new concepts made of old words) like an overloading warp core emits ...

Time-traveling law enforcement may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but if one researcher ... cut and paste genetic code like lines in a word-processing document. Researchers are already ...

There was a time when science fiction was a place to explore new ideas ... I wish I was exaggerating. Don't take my word for it. My readers have been collecting a lot of them in the comments ...

Science fiction, says Hania Siebenpfeiffer, Professor of Modern German Literature in Marburg, extrapolates the experienced present onto an “unknown, but logically consistent future”. In other words: ...

They'll probably do more with it than I ever have. I think it's fascinating that there is even a genre like science fiction. I mean, the words "science fiction" have to be an oxymoron, right?

‘The City of Silence’ by Ma Boyong appeared in Science Fiction World in 2005. It’s set in an authoritarian state in 2046 where life is lived almost entirely online, with all communication restricted ...

A radical shift In 1887 – before the invention of sliced bread, ice lollies or even the word "teenager" – the science fiction author Joseph Henri Honoré Boex set pen to paper in his Brussels ...

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction pays up to 12 cents a word, up to 25,000 words. The A.I.-generated works can be weeded out, Ms. Thomas said, although “it’s just sad that we have to ...