Tag: science fiction

With eighty authors to be accommodated at Cymera, Scotland’s festival of science fiction, fantasy and horror writing, it was inevitable that in order to facilitate the programming of

Leaving is apparently what Jack does best. He left his wife, he left his friends in a whole lot of trouble, and now he wants to leave the

Two mismatched men in a hostile environment, an escaped prisoner and the guard who hunts him, find themselves face to face in the only shelter available from the

It was a beautiful day on the beach for Kate, Sam and their daughter Suzy, enjoying the sun and playing in the surf until the bombs dropped, mushroom

Trapped in a tin can travelling at ninety-nine per cent of the speed of light, the lives of those aboard are arrested from both the perspective of an

Battered by what is believed to be a celestial event, the radiation blast of a nova, a pulsar or such, the deep space vessel Orka is not equipped

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, but apparently, like some post-apocalyptic nightmare scenario, cockroaches will thrive in that environment, a terraforming tool out of

It’s a just another ordinary day at school for Alexander Papas; have your salt and vinegar crisps stolen by Dinu Balan, get summoned to the headteacher’s office to

It’s the end of the world, the Hubble Space Telescope having detected “a gravitational rip” at the edge of the galaxy; within a thirty years it will have

It is the year 2080 and Valentina Lidova is a teacher for what will be the last generation on the dying planet Earth in the wake of the