Acclaimed Minneapolis-native author Calvin B. Fisher delivers a thrilling post-apocalyptic adventure with “The Northfield ...

More than 50 years into the future, the human race is headed toward extinction, and humanity ends in Upstate New York. That’s the future chronicled in “After World,” a new science fiction novel from ...

There is no debate that sci-fi is one of the most popular movie genres. With stories that use science as a basis for pushing ...

In the past month, there has been a resurgence in the consumption of plague stories and apocalyptic fiction. Pandemic films like “Contagion” and Netflix’s “Outbreak” have risen to particular ...

Climate science fiction, or “cli-fi,” is having a renaissance, with writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Emily St. John Mandel garnering national attention. Although the genre is recent, the ...

Andy Weir, author of “The Martian,” is a fan of apocalyptic stories. The genre offers so many opportunities for “cool plots, conflict and action,” he says. “A postnuclear-war wasteland with people ...

There are a lot of wild Texas scenarios in Robert Evans’s cyberpunk sci-fi novel After the Revolution (AK Press, 2022). It’s 2070 and the United States has splintered. So has Texas, where the Republic ...

We’ve all admittedly refreshed our social media feeds during a power outage, desperately hoping the Wi-Fi will magically resurrect itself. These minor inconvenience gets thinking: what happens when ...

pt. 1. New worlds for old: The apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature: Science fiction ; A prophecy of America, the moon, and Mars -- pt. 2. Other worlds: Other worlds out ...