John Christopher’s imaginative universe
With The Tripods, The Death of Grass and many others, he created enduring worlds for his readersWhether you knew John Christopher by his given name Samuel Youd, or any of the many pseudonyms he wrote under during his seven-decade-long writing career, h...
What’s become of corporate society?
Monolithic corporations, long one of speculative fiction's betes noir, are undergoing radical change. Is fiction changing with them?The corporate society has been an enduring wellspring of stories over the last century. Inspired by the factory producti...
Winter reads
This potent rite-of-passage tale offers readers some useful pointers on keeping the heart warm in allegorically wintry timesThe novel that raised Haruki Murakami to literary superstardom ranges across the seasons, but the heart of its meaning is found ...
Can SF lead us from ruin?
Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?It's a truism that science fiction, however distinct its vision of the future, is always just as much a reflection of its present. The go...
Can SF lead us from ruin?
Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?It's a truism that science fiction, however distinct its vision of the future, is always just as much a reflection of its present. The go...
Can SF lead us from ruin?
Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?It's a truism that science fiction, however distinct its vision of the future, is always just as much a reflection of its present. The go...
Can SF lead us from ruin?
Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?It's a truism that science fiction, however distinct its vision of the future, is always just as much a reflection of its present. The go...
Can SF lead us from ruin?
Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?It's a truism that science fiction, however distinct its vision of the future, is always just as much a reflection of its present. The go...
Can science fiction lead us away from economic collapse?
Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?It's a truism that science fiction, however distinct its vision of the future, is always just as much a reflection of its present. The go...
Beware The Weird!
An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded has been released. I implore you not to read itI am forced into speech because men of letters refuse to act without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tel...
The greatest horror writer you’ve never read
Having written Stainless, the best vampire novel ever, Grimson disappeared. Now he is back I was 20 when I first read Stainless by Todd Grimson. My teenage vampire addiction had been intense and unhealthy. I'll admit that Interview With the Vampire was...
Romantic fantasy, fiction and reality