Tag: science fiction

On the upper tip of the north island of New Zealand, Waikato is a large region of unspoiled wilderness and sparse communities, home to less than half a

To the ancient astronomers, it pleased their beliefs that the cosmos was an ordered place where the stars and planets moved on fixed and fully predictable paths, that

Science would have it that sea monsters do not exist, but the tragic experience of Captain Seafield during a fishing trip the shores of Lake Michigan have led

Soviet Kazakhstan, late 1984, the Orbit 4 capsule has de-orbited and fallen back to Earth after a long mission in space, aboard it Cosmonauts Konstantin Veshnyakov and Kirill

Newton demonstrated that any object will continue in a uniform motion unless acted on by an external force; tumbling out of control in an escape pod following the

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,

It’s been a bad year for the Anderson family of Blue Hill County, Pennsylvannia, a year of fruitless searching since the afternoon of November 17th, 1982, when Olivia

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

The town of Mercer, Ohio, is nondescript; tired, rusty, off the beaten track, not so much a has been as a never was, the adults content to go

“I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer