Tag: science fiction

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

James and his sister Meredith each have their domains; she lives in the house they share and the present, while he spends most of his free time in

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, 36,000 feet down in the Mariana Trench, 316 people work the Kepler Mining Station, among them engineer Norah Price, underwater for so long

Having considered the possibilities and occasional hazards of time travel, artificial intelligence and monsters both from within and beyond in his earlier anthologies for the Science Fiction Classics

The clock turns back as Mike Ashley once again scours the archives of the British Library to compile another anthology in their ongoing Science Fiction Classics range, this

A recent addition to the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library, first published in 1936, Ian Macpherson’s Wild Harbour only sits peripherally on the farthest stretch

A novelist whose friends included Dorothy L Sayers and Virginia Woolf, Muriel Jaeger’s name is not so well known or celebrated, possibly because her output was less prolific

Thomas Dunn always believed that he was special, that he would be the one who could make a difference, who could help those in need. Brought up watching

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