As the Daily Mail's news values have moved up the news agenda this week, it's been fun watching the #MiddleEarthDailyMail hashtag on Twitter. Users have been pondering the effect of...
Science fiction marks the point where the artistic project to understand the human condition meets the scientific project to transform it. It's arguably the one discipline in the...
Science fiction is all around us, from clandestine electronic surveillance to robots taking our jobs, from death-dealing drones in the skies of Pakistan right through to the second...
When Damien Walter tweeted he'd 'literally kill' to interview the multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman replied 'What if the person you had to kill was …...
If SF is grounded in hard scientific fact, and science is killing God, then what place does that leave for divine intervention in the pages of SF literature? When I tweeted...
News of secret courts being introduced in the world's oldest democracy should scare any rational human. The right to a public trial has survived feudalism, Henry VIII and the...
The worst thing that ever happened to science fiction was getting confused with genre fiction. If any kind of literature relies on the new and the innovative to excite the reader it...
