Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore. Oh, wait. You're not Toto. You're a robot dog with five heads. What's going on here?!Science fiction, that's what. One thing we'll find over and over again in sci...

It's a cliché that sci-fi fiction and film are full of aliens. There's a reason that cliché exists—it's because it's true. Aliens are among the non-human characters that we'll find in sci-fi. B...

Sci-fi works may be set in fantastic locations far away from where we mere mortals live, but that doesn't mean that they have nothing to do with us. That's because even when sci-fi writers write ab...

Maybe it's a bit of a no-brainer to say that science is a big part of science fiction. We'll also add technology to the mix, because science and technology are big in this genre. Hey, just because...

Rev up the DeLorean: time travel is another big theme in sci-fi. We'll find characters in these works zipping into the future, or back in time. Often, the whole plot of a Sci-fi work is set in a di...

We'll find lots and lots of journeys in sci-fi. People are traveling all over the place. They might zip from galaxy to galaxy, or from time to time. If the whole universe were your oyster, wouldn't...

Sci-fi writers like talking about our world by pretending to talk about another world. They're sneaky and nuanced like that.And one of sci-fi writers favorite ways to do this is to depict dystopia....

The roots of sci-fi really go back—way back—to the Age of Reason. That's the 18th century we're talking about, when the Enlightenment changed the world as we know it. During this time, philosop...

The Scientific Revolution, which got going in the 16th century in Europe, had a huge (like, phenomenally large) impact on our understanding of the world. Scientists and mathematicians like Galileo...

The golden age of sci-fi coincided with an explosion of magazines that published science fiction. In fact, some of the most popular sci-fi works were first published in magazines that released work...