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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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San Antonio's free pop culture convention on Saturday will feature best-selling authors John Scalzi and Martha Wells.

Science fiction is one of the most important genres in comics. Over the decades, creators have used science fiction concepts in brilliant ways, using sci-fi to enhance superheroes. The superhero is a ...

The decade saw the rise of riskier, more transgressive, and far more original and experimental sci-fi movies. Some of them have gone down in history as underappreciated cult classics, such as Mothra ...