Tag: science fiction

“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Thus spoke Sir Arthur C Clarke on the likelihood of

It is December 1959, an era of fear of the Cold War between Russian and America, each fighting for political, economic and technological supremacy, but also the optimism

A prolific and highly regarded author of science fiction novels whose output over four decades has earned him sufficient awards to fill several mantelpieces if not a cabinet,

Theatre changes, theatre evolves, new media penetrate the auditorium in order to keep pace with developments elsewhere in popular culture, but sometimes the best way to incorporate the

It’s almost a hundred and twenty years since H G Wells‘ The Invisible Man was first published in serialised form, and as with many of the works of “the

Having been produced with relatively little fanfare for a major science fiction movie, the full trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival was an unexpected gift which bodes well for

With pulsing electronic beats across a hall illuminated by their shifting projected logo, the grotesque reprobates of Kill the Beast are back in town, pitchfork held aloft, as

It’s been over ten years since Star Trek departed television, with first broadcast episodes across numerous shows having been a continuous fixture of schedules for eighteen years since

It has been twenty years since the alien attack on Earth. Twenty years since the world cried out in one (American) voice “We will not go quietly into

It’s been quite a few years since Ken MacLeod last went into out space, the arena to which the divided protagonists aspired in his first novel, The Star