To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ways that remain with us nearly three decades on.

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Shows like Magnum P.I. and The Golden Girls were great in the 1980s, but they're even better to revisit today.

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The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

Stålenhag’s surreal retro-futuristic art book, "The Electric State," tells the story of a young girl and a little yellow ...

Cyphacon returns to the Lake Area this weekend — it’s 13th celebration of all things sci-fi, anime and gaming. This year’s celebrity lineup includes John Glover, best known as Lionel Luthor on ...

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek opens Neko Health's largest AI-powered body scan clinic in London, offering futuristic full checkups in ...

Some of the best sci-fi TV shows are from the 1980s, with many of the decade's greatest animated series being just as awesome ...

The book, “Silicon Valley East” (the name is a term used by President Ronald Reagn during a real-life visit to Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1985), takes place mainly throughout the mid-Atlantic region, ...

Apple TV Plus did the unthinkable in adapting Isaac Asimov's epic sci-fi book series. But the streamer pulled it off. Jared Harris plays Hari Seldon, an exiled math professor, for predicting the ...