Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and ...

Welcome to the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors collection. For four years, this contest has celebrated stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in ...

Ross and Rachel. Carrie and Big. Edward and Bella. Romeo and Juliet. The list of famous fictonal couples runs long—but not one of the aforementioned made our list of the most memorable couples ...

Split Fiction is the newest game coming from Hazelight Studios, the minds behind the revolutionary co-op title It Takes Two and it's releasing in a few weeks! That's right, after making the go-to ...

New Delhi, India - Japan is facing an escalating cyber onslaught from Chinese state-sponsored hacker groups, with MirrorFace (Earth Kasha) emerging as a major threat to the country’s national security ...

(Or a mix of both.) But for those who like to indulge in books that are grounded in real-world figures and history, the historical fiction genre is here with a positively sweeping array of ...

You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small blisters or lesions that can itch, burn, or tingle. With treatment, the lesions and pain should subside in three to five ...

There are a lot of intriguing titles on the way this year in the fantasy and science fiction space. Whether you're looking for a wildly unique tale or a return to a beloved fictional universe ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The ...

Chants of Sennaar, the 2023 language puzzle game from Rundisc, uses fictional languages but was developed in French and English. “Our choices of vocabulary, riddles, and puzzles were made from ...

Only a portion of Ms. Han’s fiction is available in English, but what we have falls along a spectrum between allegory and extreme realism. On one pole is “The Vegetarian” (2007), about a ...

In this month’s sci-fi picks, what’s worse? Coming face-to-face with the apocalypse or with our older selves? By Elisabeth Vincentelli Rent or buy it on most major platforms. Ben Goodger’s ...