science fiction

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It sounds like science fiction, but space is becoming a strategic asset for companies and governments worldwide.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

This includes teams working with China's Einstein Probe and the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array, which is widely recognized from its appearance in the science fiction film Contact.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

The goal is simple, he told an audience in Austin, Texas, recently: “Turn science fiction to science fact.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

On the silver screen, it dazzles like few contemporary science fiction films do, opting for color over the pallid gray verisimilitude that often bogs down its peers.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

Swift had read Cyrano, and Gulliver is a cunning variation on the by then conventional themes of science fiction, one in which islands are substituted for planets.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton