CHILDREN can easily get bored on holiday. Best to prepare well and make sure they have some beautifully designed, captivating non-fiction, as well as brain-stretching science fiction.

Children may discover science fiction on their own, but adults can do more to normalize the genre. Deposit Photos This article was originally published in The Conversation.

Science fiction can also illustrate the grim possibilities of overuse of social media and lack of data privacy—both closely related to the explosion of AI—in a more forceful way than ...

Mr. Han’s father, a journalist, brought home science magazines and books such as “One Hundred Thousand Whys,” a popular science series for children. The young Mr. Han was fascinated.