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FLASHBACKS: Arriving four years after the attack on the Twin Towers, Spielberg’s loose adaptation of the HG Wells classic – which turned 20 this week – utilised 9/11 imagery and a very era-specific sense of American panic to tell the story of an alien invasion. Many championed it. Others found…

In these sci-fi novels, we were the alien invaders the whole time.

When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as…

Can we journey through time? Sci-fi author Dete Meserve presents a compelling case for our future in the past.

History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existence

In H.G. Wells’ dystopian 1895 novel The Time Machine an unnamed Victorian scientist travels to the year 802,701. Instead of finding a flourishing, enlightened human civilisation reaping the cumulative benefits of millennia of economic and intellectual growth, he finds a horror scene. Here, gentle humans called Eloi are now the…

It's a wonder Hollywood even bothered adapting these novels, writes Jacob Stolworthy and Adam White

From the depths of the ocean to the center of the Earth, Jules Verne's impact on science fiction remains massive today.

The Tasmanian novelist – whose latest book, Question 7, is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes – on HG Wells, the TV adaptation of his Booker prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North… and his much-missed parrot, Herb

Was this under-loved science fiction flick ahead of its time? Here's why 'Elysium' is worth another look on Netflix.

'The Wrath of Khan' and 'The Voyage Home' are two of the most beloved Star Trek films, and they have roots in a little-known sci-fi adventure starring none other than genre icon H.G. Wells.