Tag: science fiction

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

It would be fair to say that the period from 1977 to 1986 could be considered a Golden Age for science fiction cinema, particularly for devotees of space

Jupiter, the lord of the solar system which dwarfs the other planets, has featured prominently in mythology, astronomy, and science fiction, notably in the work of the legendary

In the sixties, it was Landru, Nomad and the M-5, all talked to death by Jim Kirk; perhaps they could have been persuaded to a swifter electronic suicide

It’s invitation only with a top prize of $100,000, and those who receive the notification are top of the league gamers, their names familiar from the head of

Central Station, Tel Aviv; like any station, there is a mix of travellers of all nationalities, even species, and commerce; being Tel Aviv, there is an undercurrent of

An eight year old boy, Alton Meyer, has been kidnapped. The police have provided details to the news stations, who broadcast with increasing urgency and fervour to be

A political prisoner of war in a military labour camp where the inmates are chained and muzzled, former pilot Kye Cortland knows what he must do to survive,

With the advent of the Space Race in the early nineteen sixties, the American film industry turned its attention once more to a genre which had been languishing