Science Fiction

TV shows and films about alternate dimensions or alien planets are only convincing when paired with sounds that also seem otherworldly.

On his debut film, The Inheritance, which weaves together histories of the MOVE organization, the Black Arts Movement, and his own time in a Black Marxist collective.

Lafawndah extends outward, drawing on the emotionally charged myths of N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy to guide her.

On her new album with Nicole Mitchell, EarthSeed, inspired by Octavia Butler’s prescient series of Afrofuturist Parables.

One hundred years later, Hartman revisits W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1920 short story, “The Comet”—”a speculative fiction about the end of the world written after the pandemic of 1918, after the Red Summer of 1919, and in the context of colonial expansion and atrocity.”

The cats were entering middle age and felt despair. They had come to realize that life was not a project one could complete successfully. Life was not a treat.

On directing a film about the Mir space station and viewing the fall of the Soviet Union from above.

Future St. is set in an America in which homosexuality has triumphed over heterosexuality, cloning has replaced sexual reproduction, and California has seceded from the mainland United States to form the gay male state of “Clonifornia.”

If novelists could tell the story of climate change, they might spark the action scientists are calling for in order to save the planet.

Surrealism meets fantasy in The Last Days of New Paris, a recent novel by a British author of New Weird Fiction.

“Look at me, I have an inner life, I think differently, I am different, and yet, I can also reflect back your own thoughts.”