Weir—who also wrote the novel that became The Martian—picks inspirational works from Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, and George ...

Maxim Gehricke’s dialogue-free short lures with charm before pivoting to tragedy, using contrast, timing, and stark visuals for a haunting payoff.

The nature of sci-fi shows often require that they create worlds out of whole cloth, but in some cases, even the ...

This frames the plot of “The Evitable Conflict,” a short story from “I, Robot,” Isaac Asimov’s seminal collection published in 1950. In the background of the nuclear age, technology was quietly ...

Some days, it feels like we’re getting all the bad parts of cyberpunk and none of the cool stuff. Megacorps and cyber warfare? Check. Flying cars and holograms? Not quite yet. This week, ...

Fighting robots is a cultural fantasy going back at least to Richard Matheson's 1956 story "Steel." One Detroit impresario is ...

The Next Generation, Falling Skies, and Battlestar Galactica are some of the sci-fi shows that get better with every rewatch.

Georges Méliès short Gugusse et l’Automate resurfaces after a century, scanned and stabilized for online viewing in 4K.

Isaac Asimov is one of the most famous and celebrated sci-fi authors of all time, part of the "Big Three" of the Golden Age of Science Fiction together with hugely influential authors Arthur C. Clarke ...

The short film 'Molly & The Robot' directed by Táine King, shot in County Monaghan has won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 2026 Dublin International Film Festival. IFTN spoke with ...

Considered lost for over a century, Georges Méliès' 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema’s earliest robot.