SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a rare sighting in San Francisco: A Russian warship is docked on the Embarcadero. The cruiser Varyag, which is equipped with 16 cruise missiles, is the first Russian ...

Ad Astra’s space pirates are not, in that sense, a bug, but rather a feature, of the modern hard science-fiction movie, a genre full of alienated workaholics who bury their feelings in their work.

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was shot down in space from a warship for the first time during a successful demonstration on Tuesday, according to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

How "hard sf" keeps the science in science fiction. Charles Sheffield. April 6, 2002. By High-tech Futures. We all (I hope) love books, but a spoken phrase permits nuances denied to its written form.

Hard SF loses one of its all-time great editors, as Stanley Schmidt retires from Analog. ... and you can see his influence in the more realistic way Russell handles space travel. ...

For decades space has been the playplace for world powers, ... But it's still hard as hell, ... Disrupt SF runs October 2 to October 4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.