A machine is trained to write deceptively humanlike poetry. Children learn mostly passively, through mechanical devices. Genius is defined as identifying the right questions to ask an all-knowing ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences of innovations. It can help people think critically ...

Scouts have shared notable fiction and non-fiction trends ahead of LBF, with romantasy still firmly on publishers’ radars but ‘broadening its scope’, an increase in speculative novels and a ‘notable ...