“Classic tales of creatures from beyond” is the promise made by editor Mike Ashley in the latest collection in the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library,
Tomas Piety has acquired a great deal alongside the position he has established as leader of the Pious Men of Ellingburg: a reputation as a businessman, though his
The streets of Edinburgh,1849, full of life and death, of poverty and possibility; the use of chloroform as anaesthetic as pioneered by Doctor James Young Simpson has made
The latest volume in the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library edited by Mike Ashley, Menace of the Machine gathers fourteen stories originally published between 1894
“A gift from the gods,” Lae Fetlanger called him, the baby she found abandoned in night; raising him as her own, she named the child Lannigon, but Lae’s
The past casts a shadow which is never gone, even as a high speed train slips through the night towards Belgium, aboard it the disgraced former Belgian Special
A victor stands on a future battlefield over the bodies of both defeated armies, the blood in her hair matching her name, Red; a time agent, an operative
Sixteen-year-old sisters Madeline and Catlin Hayes are moving to a castle in Ballyfrann, hometown of their new stepfather Brian, their new home having a reputation as “the murder
Communication is something which is too often taken for granted in science fiction, a closed box of magic without which the actual story being told could not progress
It was Wilhuff Tarkin, Grand Moff of the Empire and Governer of the Outer Rim, who commissioned Sienar Fleet Systems to create “a line of single-pilot, short-range starfighters,”
