What is The Science of Fiction?

The Science of Fiction is a newsletter on how science shapes stories about the future and how stories about the future shape science. Its goal is to highlight the awesome power of science fiction as a tool that can help bring about a better world and frankly, to engage in some rampant science based speculation about monsters.

Specifically, this newsletter will include…

• Explainers on the real world science behind fictional technologies, fictional worlds, and fictional beings from the future.

• Essays on scientific themes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
• Interviews with storytellers who are supercharging their fiction with science.
• Investigations of how science fiction has inspired scientific research.

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Sign up now so that you don’t miss a single dispatch, mission brief, or red alert. Learn more about Maddie Stone, a PhD scientist, science journalist, aspiring space botanist, and the fearless captain of The Science of Fiction here.

The Science of Fiction logo was created by science cartoonist JoAnna Wendel.