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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Either by developing new filmmaking technology or coining narrative elements that would become tropes, sci-fi movies ...

One of the most heartbreaking shows of this century was released on Prime Video in 2020, and it remains a fantastic sci-fi ...

Kung-fu movies feature the best fighting scenes in almost any action flick, but the best sci-fi kung-fu movies add something even bigger.

In the vast constellation of science fiction television, a few series have managed to emerge fully formed and unscathed by ...