The very first appearance of a facility serving some of the functions of stellar cartography was in September 1967’s classic episode The Changeling, where the Nomad probe was
According to the blurb, Phillip Blake (“the Governor,” although anyone who doesn’t know that will probably not be particularly interested in this book) is an “uber-villain” who runs
How do you sum up fifty years of travel, adventure and excitement, troubles and conflicts, hopes and disappointments, with clarity and context, in just over three hundred pages?
The label “science fiction” is one which many authors have sought to avoid being trapped within. The great John Wyndham referred to his own works as “a modified
A well-known radio and television personality in addition to regular appearances on the comedy and music festival circuits, Mitch Benn, currently touring in the role of Zaphod Beeblebrox
Arriving with little of the fanfare of its predecessor Blue Remembered Earth, publishers Gollancz have chosen to launch the second volume of Alastair Reynolds’ Poseidon’s Children as though
Books huh? What’s that all about then? I usually write about games, a medium whose narrative requires a tad more interaction than the mere turn of a page.
The independent bookstore is one of the last strongholds against encroaching homogenisation under the corporate boot. When even chain stores struggle to maintain a bricks and mortar presence
History repeats itself in this, the third novel from South African writer Lauren Beukes, as across the twentieth century a serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago. From
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?” So ponders Krina Alizond-114
