Author: Michael Flett

Of all the weapons the dark lord possesses, his most pervasive and insidious is the found footage movie. Though not first, The Blair Witch Project was most famous,

The process of novelising a television or film script is unenviable, and while there are those who have made successful careers out of it, such as Alan Dean

Concealed under heavy makeup as Sandor “The Hound” Clegane, Knight of House Baratheon in Game of Thrones, Rory McCann may not be immediately recognisable, yet he has an

On March 3rd, 2012, Mars and Earth were on their closest approach, as Earth’s faster orbit brought it between the more distant, slower Mars and overtook it on

On October 7th 1849, the American writer Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore. He was taken to hospital, where he later died, aged

Much as global austerity has forced cuts to the space programmes of the major nations, diverting funds to more immediate concerns of continuity and survival, so has science

While the stars may be the eventual destination of much science fiction, the first goal of two of the fathers of science fiction was closer and eminently more

Sixty years on from their heyday, Hammer are fondly remembered as the hallmark of quality British horror, yet their output largely consisted of costumed potboilers constrained by the

In the late nineteenth century, spiritualism was the new rage, spreading across America on the back of the Fox sisters, Maggie and Kate, who claimed that they could

Though a decade passed between Alastair Reynolds publishing his first short story, 1990’s Nunivak Snowflakes in 1990 in Interzone and his first novel, Revelation Space, the past decade