Tag: John Wyndham

A new place and a new beginning, a high-rise block of flats atop a wooded hill, open spaces to explore and new friends to make, everything is different

Following their comprehensive collection of essays published late last year, Science Fiction: A Literary History, the British Library continue their exploration of the realms of that genre with

It begins in a classroom, what should be a benign place of safety yet is anything but, the students marshalled by armed soldiers. Strapped to her chair, Melanie

Jane Rogers is a literary novelist and scriptwriter whose credits include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Book, BAFTA nominations and an Arts Council award.

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

The first twenty five years of your life are free.  Beyond that, you have one year, and every day you must earn more time to keep the clock

Few books can be read by a contemporary audience and still stand as modern masterpieces without account being taken of the context. There are timeless works still relevant

Is it only a fellow writer who, when reading a great novel, speculates how much was conceived in a flood of inspiration at the moment of conception, and