Science fiction‘s task is to imagine our future; its secret wish is to invent it. Brackett, while casting himself as a mere psychologist and psychology as a mere medical science, plays with the ...

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we manufacture a nightmarish future and refuse to heed the warnings so ...

Science fiction can be valuable in the broader communication ecosystem, bringing science to the public and offering scientists a space to exercise imagination. Science communication is increasingly ...

There’s something beautifully electric about science fiction. It doesn’t just entertain – it challenges us, expands our understanding, and sometimes even predicts the future. With the genre ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

In the mid 1900s the future felt imminent amid ideas of potential space travel. This led many people to begin to imagine what a social future could look like. Using Science Fiction as a vessel, many ...

Science fiction, you (allegedly) have a sexism problem. In an incisive article for the The Guardian's book blog, Damien Walter lays out a stark gender disparity: of the 29 Grandmasters of Science ...

In Dealing with Feeling, the latest work of speculative fiction by Marc Brackett, the fantasy is simple: What if, at long last, we could tame the human heart? What if we overcame "the biggest obstacle ...