Young people who are “hooked” on watching fantasy or reading science fiction may be on to something. Contrary to a common misperception that reading this genre is an unworthy practice, reading science ...

Young people who are hooked on watching fantasy or reading science fiction may be on to something. Contrary to a common misperception that reading this genre is an unworthy practice, reading science ...

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A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

A decade ago, I would not have considered it worthwhile to write about the virtue of consuming fiction. Stories and narratives, whether spoken or in print, have been a hallmark of cultures across the ...

New generative AI technologies may be transforming the creative economy, but large majorities of readers and authors have big concerns about how it could affect their reading experience, according to ...

Esther Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Esther Jones, Associate Professor of English, ...