While one would think that worm riding chosen ones, planet hopping astronauts, or stargazing astronomers would be composed of all genders, much of the sci-fi canon is about a small subsection of the ...

Some of the best new sci-fi and fantasy stories you can read this January tell the stories of women confronting the worst with the help of friends. (Grand Central; Flatiron; Harper Voyager) ...

From a 1980s James Cameron classic to an Oscar-winning film with Sandra Bullock, these sci-fi movies prove there are plenty of great female leads in sci-fi.

In She's In Ctrl: How Women Can Take Back Tech, Dr. Anne- Marie Imafidon explores how the stories we tell ourselves about women can inspire our futures.

A quick survey of science fiction films reveals a paucity of meaty female roles: In the early days of the genre, most sci-fi leading ladies were granted the role of Love Interest or Saucy Sidekick ...

Local author Donna Glee Williams celebrates the release of her latest sci-fi book, The Night Field, on Friday, July 29, at 3 p.m. at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Worldcon – the world’s oldest and most influential sci-fi gathering – is taking place in China for the first time, drawing hordes of eager local fans of every stripe.

Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley sat down to write a ghost story and created science fiction. Women still pen the genre’s finest, exemplified by Ursula K Le Guin, who died this week. Yet so ...

In sci-fi films, nothing raises tension quite like the good guys' spaceship getting caught in an invisible tractor beam that allows the baddies to slowly reel them in.

Women writers are taking the Chinese science fiction scene by storm, with their increasing prominence one of the genre's most noticeable trends, according to participants at a major convention in ...