Tag: science fiction

It is eighty-nine days since the world as it was ended, since the population was hunted down and slaughtered, since civilisation broke down and government collapsed, the few

Published alongside their retrospective consideration or our nearest celestial body, Moonrise – The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures, the British Library also look further afield to our next

Following their comprehensive collection of essays published late last year, Science Fiction: A Literary History, the British Library continue their exploration of the realms of that genre with

Despite being way off the target demographic for Disney’s latest “How-the-Hell-do-we-promote-this-visual-effects-extravaganza,” the promise of 109 minutes of whimsical escapism on a March night proved an irresistible draw. A

In bold print the warning on the back of the package states that misuse of the product could cause disorientation, sleepwalking and confusion, but the lure of what

The first ever reality television show shot in space, filmed live in the Oort Cloud and transmitted back to Earth, the problem with the subjects of Personal Space

It’s been eighteen years since Alastair Reynolds’ first novel set in Revelation Space was released, though earlier short stories had introduced that universe, and it has remained his

A long-time chronicler of middle-class middle America in mid-life crisis, through Matthew Broderick’s teacher taken down by Reese Witherspoon’s scheming student in Election to Paul Giamatti’s endless sunsets

If a person is the sum of their memories and experiences, some are more defining than others; for modelmaker Sam Bloom it is the night he went drinking

With the sounds of her crash landing mixing with voices from the past, Doctor Eva Novak of deep space research organistaion Navis awakens in an alien desert, thrown