In recent years, we’ve discovered so many astounding things about the universe, it’s almost impossible to choose just one to give the title “most astounding fact.” For starters, we know that our ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In his new book "Astounding," coming out today (Oct. 23), Alec Nevala-Lee follows four titans of ...

On the fourth floor of the MIT Student Center, roughly 60,000 books and thousands of magazines crowd the narrow, overstuffed shelves of the MIT Science Fiction Society Library. Mobiles and paper ...

In 1944 the science-fiction magazine Astounding published a short story called “Deadline.” In it, the author, Cleve Cartmill, described a superbomb very much like what was then being developed in New ...

Robert Kirkman is a writer of many talents. He arguably started the current zombie craze with his superbly-crafted series The Walking Dead. Then he took it to its utmost level of hilarity and ...

There’s an old joke about the golden age of science fiction being 12 — that is, the age when young people discover and then devour as much sf as they can find. Alec Nevala-Lee even quotes the remark ...

Skybound and Image Comics announced two new compendium additions to the Invincible Universe, and they feature two fan-favorite characters: Tech Jacket and The Astounding Wolf-Man. Tech Jacket ...

Jeremy Lin and the art of being astounding. Astounding is not a skill, or a talent, or luck: it’s different than that. Being astounding is an art. And right now, we have a perfect example of an artist ...