Science Fiction

To Boldly Follow: A grand, familiar Star Trek

Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Which Space Saga Reigns Supreme?

"It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire." So begins the famous opening crawl to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the 1977 film that kicked off a universe full of furry dog-beasts, deadly weapons of l ... More >>

Three Words: Jar Jar Binks

Rebuttal: Wesley Crusher

The Phone Rings for Thee

The Browncoats

5 p.m. Saturday, November 24. The Crack Fox, 1114 Olive Street.

la jetée

Science and Romance: When Worlds Collide

From Gruesome to Galactic

Trials and Tribble-ations

Bean On Up to Shatner's World

Local Author Nominated for Nebula Award, Highest Honor in Science Fiction

image viaCarolyn Ives Gilman​The movie version of The Hunger Games arrives in theaters one month from today. If you want to ease the agony of suspense, you could do worse than distracting yourself with the work of St. Louis writer Carolyn Ives Gilman, whose novella "The Ice Owl" has just been ... More >>

Star Trek Make-up Artist Jeff Lewis Talks Aliens and George Clooney's Wonderful Skin

Star Trek make-up artist Jeff Lewis is at the St. Louis Science Center tonight for First Fridays, a monthly series for Trekkies to geek out with their half-betazoid loving kin. The six-time Emmy nominee will make-up one lucky girl -- the the costume contest winner from last month's inaugural event - ... More >>

Final Frontier First Fridays

Set Phasers on Fun

Jessie HarlaQuinn Will Get You Motivated

Jessie HarlaQuinn, 26 Texas Avenue, near Utah Street ​​In an effort to celebrate the people who keep our city interesting, Daily RFT is launching a new weekly blog post, "Bold Types," featuring photos and street interviews with the fashionistas, fresh faces and free spirits of our town. I' ... More >>

Blast Off

Lev Grossman Talks About The Magician King

​Fans of Lev Grossman's 2009 novel The Magicians, may have wondered what happened after Quentin Coldwater, an ordinary depressive boy from Brooklyn, found his way to the super-fabulous Brakebills Academy, a university for magic hidden away in upstate New York, and then to the magical land of F ... More >>

Wash. U. Scientists Discover Mind-Reading

Washington UniversityTell me if this hurts...​It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel: communicating with another person not by speaking or gesticulating, but simply by thinking. Mental telepathy mumbo-jumbo, right? Nope. According to scientists at the Washington University Sc ... More >>

Comment of the Day: St. Louis Centre, This City's Real Black Hole

Today's comment of the day comes in response to a post about the movie The Black Hole that aired last weekend on the SyFy Channel. The 2006 film, starring Judd Nelson and based in St. Louis, imagines what would happen if a research experiment goes horribly wrong, creating a black hole that threatens ... More >>

Red or Blue?

Brain 2.0

Arachnocide

Future Shock

Tempest in Space

Will We Travel the Spaceways?

Chairlift

8 p.m. Monday, March 16. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards.

Mistress of Horror: Nobody writes vampire novels the way St. Louis' Laurell K. Hamilton does – and yes, there's lots of sex

Don't Panic

It's a play, not an invasion

Worlds Within Worlds

The spirit of radio

Archon 32 Is Go

Culture lovers, assemble

Put the "U" in Ridiculous

Friday is your playground

Future Shock

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating, too.

Pilot to Captain

Fabulous Fix at the Fabulous Fox

Charge of the Light Brigade

Racing to reignite the sun -- and our souls -- in Danny Boyle's sci-fi collage

Her One Little Secret

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Bad News With Al

An Inconvenient Truth

Space Is Deep

Flaming Lip Michael Ivins drops some serious science -- fiction, that is -- on Paul Friswold.

Schticking & Screaming

The Evil Dead star lets us pick his Brain

Geeks Gone Wild

If you can't get laid at a science-fiction convention, you can't get laid!

Sci-Fi High

It's not just for Trekkers anymore: Archon returns to St. Louis with a tantalizing slate of events

Future Shock

Simon Wells tinkers with his great-grandpa H.G.'s Time Machine

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

What Once Held Allure for You but No Longer Does?

Week of January 17, 2001

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 18

Best-Looking Fast-Food Joint

Del Taco

Best Local Artist

Carol Carter

The Starship Hits the Fan

St. Louis gears up for Archon 24

Take Me to Your Leader

Sci-fi and fantasy enthusiasts of all stripes congregate at the Gateway Science Fiction and Media Convention

The Final Frontier

Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time