We exist in a society entirely built around science, engineering and technology and the gifts it has brought, yet with increasing complexity it has become commensurately “closed box;”
From across the Firth of Styx, leaving her home city of Clay Portside in Lyonne, Lightmistress Arden Beacon has been assigned to the responsibility for the lighthouse in
First published in 1927 and now reprinted as part of the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library, The Man with Six Senses was the second novel
“There’s a woman called Tegan in Australia fighting for Aboriginal rights. There’s Ben and Polly in India, running an orphanage there. There was Harry. Oh, I loved Harry.
When the protomolecule opened the ring gates, thirteen hundred of them, allowing humanity access to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, vast, unexplored regions of space and the
Having considered the possibilities and occasional hazards of time travel, artificial intelligence and monsters both from within and beyond in his earlier anthologies for the Science Fiction Classics
The clock turns back as Mike Ashley once again scours the archives of the British Library to compile another anthology in their ongoing Science Fiction Classics range, this
A recent addition to the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library, first published in 1936, Ian Macpherson’s Wild Harbour only sits peripherally on the farthest stretch
“The Empire, because of its unwieldy size and corrupt bureaucracy, relies on a single model of starfighter to fulfill nearly all its needs. Their single-mindedness is their weakness.
A novelist whose friends included Dorothy L Sayers and Virginia Woolf, Muriel Jaeger’s name is not so well known or celebrated, possibly because her output was less prolific