It was a strange invitation from a man known to be an eccentric though personally unknown to each of his guests, millionaire Frederick Loren hosting an overnight party
London, the cusp of what was to be the bitterly cold winter of 1962 to 1963, and Hugo Barrett arrives at the Knightsbridge address of his potential employer,
At the Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History, palaeontologist Doctor David Huxley is deep in thought about where to put his bone; it’s the day before his wedding to
The planets of the solar system having been individually examined through the lens of the telescope and speculative fiction in Born of the Sun, the latest anthology collected
Out of a grainy, slowly moving monochrome image of objects so abstract and removed from context that their form can be discerned but no function can be determined,
In the upper storey bedroom of his prestigious London abode, Henry Augustus Russell, unrepentant practical joker extraordinaire, breathes his last, yet he still intends that his laughter should
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
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
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
While the Moon had been the obvious destination of choice from the earliest adventures of fictional space adventure, as detailed in the British Library’s short story collection Moonrise
