The influence of the genre we call “fantasy”, which often looks back to the medieval past in order to escape a techno-scientific future, means that the Middle Ages have rarely been associated with ...

The first science-fiction story about time travel appeared ... One of the most poetic descriptions of time travel occurs in a popular medieval legend describing a monk entranced for a minute ...

Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the body is around 900 years old, and previous studies suggested it was a man aged 30-40 ...

The remains were discovered during excavations in 1938. Now, researchers have learned new information about his identity by ...

Rachel Feltman: These days, science and magic are generally thought of as being diametrically opposed: fact versus fiction ... is called Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology.

Some have elements that fit the season; others take readers to the depths of space, the bloody frontier of a medieval battle ...

Researchers say the discovery matched "very well" with a story documented in a historical text known as the Sverris Saga.

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The French director Bertrand Bonello, whose science-fiction drama "The Beast" played in competition at Venice last year, is ...

VanderMeer has been busy ever since, publishing multiple novels and essays often centered on similar themes while vocally ...

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I think the possibility of this having happened is very remote,” said Cicero Moraes, a Brazilian graphics expert.