Novelists Amy Tan ('The Joy Luck Club') and Adam Ross ('Playworld') are among this year's L.A. Times Book Prizes honorees, ...

The 46th annual literary awards will recognize outstanding works in 13 categories, with winners to be announced on April 17.

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James Tynion IV remains one of the most exciting comic book writers of this generation, and many of his works are perfectly suited for TV.

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More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi concepts depart significantly from established physics. A ...

Sales of non-fiction books have tumbled by 8.4% by volume – nearly double the dip seen in fiction paperback sales – between last summer and this. Overall, the total value of sales in the sector ...

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Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in ...