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 ...

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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 ...

Red pill or blue pill? Utopia or dystopia? At PST Art — the largest art event in the U.S.— two major shows ask what science fiction says about the modern world. By Evan Nicole Brown Culture Writer “We ...

Buried in the avalanche of content on Prime Video, there are a few hidden sci-fi gems that are straight-up masterpieces.

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 ...

Paintings of strange guardian angels, early gender-fluid cosplay and illustrations of spaceships streaking across a starry expanse. That’s some of what visitors will experience at a new exhibition at ...

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 ...

Fans of The Last of Us may be surprised to discover an even more impressive sci-fi gem, one as visually stunning as it is ...

LOS ANGELES — Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation at the University of California (USC) Fisher Museum of Art, organized with ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, begins by ...

The 1990s saw advancements in effects technology that allowed filmmakers's imaginations to run wild, as is seen by these ...

Slipgate Ironworks surprised us in 2025 with Tempest Rising, an excellent sci-fi real-time strategy game. At first glance, it ...