Inherent in science fiction are a number of contradictory impulses: imaginative wonder and scientific exactness, romance and realism, childish joy and adult seriousness, the desire to escape and the passion to know. No modern writer expresses and explore...

Philip José Farmer is a prolific science fiction writer whose success is based on his deft mixture of three primary components, "religion, sex, and violence," in each of his many works, according to Franz Rottensteiner in Science-Fiction Studies....

My first contact with the Seris was in the early 1960s, when my father worked for the Ministry of Hydraulic Resources. On trips to inspect wells along the Hermosillo coast he would gather firewood to sell in Barrio Cinco dc Mayo. Bahia Kino...

Survivor creator Mark Burnett has another reality series in the works for USA Network, called Combat Missions, which pits members of elite U.S. combat units against one another, officials said last week. Burnett, who also produces Eco-Challenge for USA, has received an...