Category: Geek School

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,

The instructions are precise, the contractor is anonymous, and the coast will be clear at the appointed time, Friday night, the owner of the house elsewhere as the

With a typhoon moving towards the Japanese mainland, the crew of the Genyo-Maru II are caught between that immediate threat and the danger of Infant Island, irradiated and

A disembodied head floats across a field of stars in which is suspended a planet, shadowed, lonely and barren; a lucid dreamer, open-eyed, his name is Henry Spencer,

The Highlands of Scotland, the serene home of mountains and forests, of glorious sunsets and clear rivers and monstrous flesh-eating midges, now become host to a squad of

A pioneer of early film and of science fiction, and also of trick photography and special effects which have remained so central to the cinematic illusions of that

It is ever the position of the subordinate to be given the tasks which the senior partners do not wish to undertake; so it is that Arthur Kidd

“People are divided into good and bad. The dead are divided into corpses and vampires… Old Master Yam is a corpse that’s on the verge of becoming a

Larger than life and impossible to ignore, teenager Dawn Davenport was always destined to become the epitome of female trouble, smoking in the school toilets, eating in class,

“That spring we were all watching the events in space and wondering what the final effect would be. Astronomers argued over theory while engineers got pretty excited about