Across the U.S., a superior science-fiction movie called 2001: A Space Odyssey is playing to packed houses. An engrossing novel expanded from the movie’s screenplay and a new nonfiction book called ...

Inventors, creators and tinkerers of all sorts displayed their passions at the Lafayette Science Museum on Saturday as hundreds of curious visitors roamed around the third annual Steampunk and Makers ...

Although he is best known as a writer of extraordinary adventures, Jules Verne—one of the most translated novelists in the world—was also a prolific playwright. At the age of thirty-four, he achieved ...

Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of Jules Verne onward, has envisioned technological advances, societal ...

From the first studies of the so-called merveilleux scientifique in such essays as J. Aubry's "Le roman moderne d'hypothèse scientifique" (La Revue des Idées, 1906 No. 37) to the latest monograph by ...

Unlike the classic Jules Verne science fiction novel Journey to the Center of the Earth or movie The Core, humans cannot venture into the Earth’s interior beyond a few kilometres of its surface. But ...