Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, and Janelle Monae portray the real-life stories of NASA mathematicians Katherine Goble Johnson (Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Monae).

Want to fear the future like any self-respecting doomer sci-fi author of yesterday? I’ve got what you need. Since the genre’s inception, science fiction has warned us of the many whimpers and bangs ...