SCIENCE FICTION

An incident that shocked a 13-year-old Charlie Chaplin inspired an episode of 'The X-Files' nearly a century later.

These sci-fi tales have gone beyond predicting technological advancements to directly inspiring scientific progress, from robotics to rocketry and everything in between.

“I numb my twanging intellect with several belts of Scotch and water.” —Kurt Vonnegut during his Iowa Writers’ Workshop era.

Between writing 'Frankenstein' and carrying around her dead husband's heart, Mary Shelley earned her title as the original goth girl.

Director John Carpenter set the standard for dystopian cinema with the classic 1981 flick 'Escape from New York.'

From A Song of Ice and Fire to Dune, these unfinished book series left readers wanting more.

Although there’s some scary stuff in them, the  movies have long had a reputation for being family friendly. The darker side of Star Wars was perhaps never more

Most of the zombies you see on television and in movies moan and groan, and pull and tear, and lumber and shuffle, and remain highly focused on finding braiiinns to eat. But why do zombies act the way they do? They suffer from Consciousness Deficit Hypoac

While you wait for the premieres of 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' and 'The Matrix Resurrections,' pass the time with this sci-fi movie hidden image puzzle.

The Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fête was inspired by a popular Victorian science fiction novel—and introduced the world to bovril.

From ahead-of-the-curve furniture design to geeky scientific fact-check details, here’s what to zoom in on the next time you’re sitting awestruck watching Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

If 'Godzilla vs. Kong' were a pooping contest, who would produce the most waste: a radioactive amphibious lizard or a colossal ape?