Code names for in-production movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey was referred to as “How the Solar System Was Won” during production, while Alien was known as “Star Beast”.

While science-fiction movies may become more educational if they became science-non-fiction movies, would they still be entertaining?
Professor Perkowitz said he liked Starship Troopers, but criticised its giant insects, saying if you scaled up a real bug to that size it would collapse under its own weight. He hated The Core, in which a team [...]

From 1987 to 1989 episodes of Doctor Who were laced with anti government sentiment in an attempt to bring about the downfall of conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, according to the then doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy.
McCoy, now 66, who took over as the Doctor three months after Thatcher’s third election victory in 1987, [...]

Created by a designer with a very vivid imagination known as Nemo Ramjet, the fictitious planet of Snaiad boasts a very rich and diverse biosphere.
Snaiad is one of Humanity’s first off-world colonies, the jewel in the sky, the realm of the sublime. The hopeful colonists arriving from the war-weary Mediterranean found themselves not in a [...]

Alex Carnevale’s list of the The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time.

Mitch Ansara has created a retro/vintage style collection of book cover images titled “I Can Read Movies”, based on movie titles.

From 2005, an article about the original Star Wars movie (Episode Four, A New Hope) that somewhat revises the significance of Chewbacca (Chewie), and a number of other seemingly second-string characters.
Then, on the verge of escape, Vader himself turns up only yards from both of his children, one of whom is leaking Force [...]

While some aspects of space travel as presented in science fiction movies and books are clearly implausible, others are plain inaccurate:
It’s hard to say whether it’s due to some misguided acting or a poor understanding of physics, but astronauts are often depicted moving in slow-motion when they’re in zero gravity. It’s probably because anytime [...]

Linguist Paul Frommer, creator of the fictional Na’vi language, spoken by the indigenous population of Pandora in Avatar, has written a primer for the language.
Na’vi has 20 consonants, 7 vowels, 4 diphthongs, and 2 syllabic “pseudovowels,” rr and ll.

For truly keen Na’vi devotees, Frommer has said he will be writing about the language [...]

The best science fiction movies of the last ten years as chosen by readers of Wired Magazine.