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Solaris, Event Horizon, and Gravity are all among the absolute greatest science fiction movies that are set entirely in space ...

Sci-fi is usually associated with the vast unknown of outer space, but the vast unknown of Earth's oceans is far more compelling: 95% of it remains unexplored! Who knows what's down there? Many a ...

It’s hard to imagine a time before science fiction became the ubitiquous genre it is now. Even a decade like the now-distant 1990s has more in common with TV and movie sci-fi today than say, the 1970s ...

While many of the best sci-fi movies venture into the cosmos, fewer genre offerings take place entirely in space than you might think. Sci-fi movies tend to conjure images of spaceships flying through ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Hard space sci-fi is where storytelling meets the raw edge of scientific reality. It’s not about bending the rules of physics—it’s about following them to their logical, sometimes terrifying, extremes ...