Tag: science fiction

A volatile and potent concoction, a distillation of the elements of two of the key genres of imaginative fiction, as part of the British Library’s Tales of the

“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,

The dream of the stars made real, the oscillating hum of the enormous space antenna fills the radio waves as it bathes in the dawn, the hope of

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

Certain texts become Fringe staples, particularly if they are out of copyright, endlessly reinterpreted in various ways for the stage, sometimes modernised, sometimes almost unrecognisable; presented by Chicago’s

Reduce, reuse, recycle, the mantra of the environmental movement without which there will be no future, at least none which supports a civilisation as we know it today,

By the light of the silvery Moon, something is amiss as a black dressed hooded figure, silhouetted in light and indistinct, advances: is it threatening or searching? Suspended

A darkened industrial chamber of indistinct shapes shrouded in oily rags illuminated only by the red light of hard-wired commlinks, mechanical noises repeating their endless processes, in spacesuits

Wyatt and Christian have known each other since before college, but time and circumstance can sweep even the closest of friends in different directions then unexpectedly back together.

The cheer of the crowd at the basketball game at the high school gym, the ring of the telephone at the dimly-lit exchange, the buzz of the neon