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 ...

Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the ...

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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 ...

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

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.

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

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Hollywood has sucked Marvel and Star Wars dry and so the hunt is on for another geek-friendly franchise to be upcycled into a ...

That might have been considered science fiction 20 years ago, but scientists now warn that the film's terrifying plot could be coming true. In an open letter to Nordic policymakers, 44 of the ...