Let’s take a look at six pieces of Sci-fi that got things right and nine who got things wrong (quite terribly in many cases).

Charles Dickens’ motivations for writing the novella were deeply personal, profoundly empathetic, and undeniably practical.

For those who prefer their Christmas stories with an edge, Nothing Lasts Forever offers a gritty alternative to sugary holiday narratives.

Constables were given power to examine the contents of ovens and to confiscate dishes deemed festive…

The Zombie Survival Guide is a comprehensive, tongue-in-cheek manual.

The stakes are high and the action is non-stop in this story—before you know it you’ll be a hundred pages in!

Words themselves don’t just pop out of nowhere. There’s always a logic to them, whether borrowed, stolen or the product of invention.

Over the course of the 20th century, technology’s influence on writing wasn’t so much in what was written or the words we used but rather in the manner in which we wrote.

The English dictionary isn’t the first, there are instances of dictionaries from Sumerian times, with the oldest surviving being a Chinese one from the 3rd century BCE.

Writing has been transformative for us, evolving at an incredible rate, when considered against how long it has taken us to do the same.