Author: Michael Flett

A writer of science fiction since the early sixties, it was for his 1970 novel that Larry Niven won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as he expanded the universe

Admittedly this is more science fact, than science fiction, but when GC was offered the opportunity to chat to Andrew Cohen, head of BBC Science, before the Edinburgh

We live in an age of miracles, but not of the religious variety. The wonders of the modern age are technological, an ever refined harnessing of material and

When finishing the first book of a trilogy, the urge to immediately pick up the next instalment is usually a good thing, but unfortunately, when reading the novels

Twenty six years ago, a cultural phenomenon swept Britain. Almost thirteen years old, like all of my generation, I had grown up in a world of only three

So promised the opening sequence of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica. The implication was that the Cylons had a wider plan than that which was already

Many years ago, during a talk preceding a book signing in Edinburgh, Clive Barker expressed his frustration that his work was categorised as either horror or fantasy, two

If there is a constant motif that runs through the work of Alastair Reynolds, it is one of decay, of an age running out, as in the melding

Is it only a fellow writer who, when reading a great novel, speculates how much was conceived in a flood of inspiration at the moment of conception, and

Although the Edinburgh Film Festival had more to offer than this brief selection, commitments and finances, not to mention scheduling clashes, prevent even the most dedicated of reporters