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Arthur C Clarke’s forgotten masterpiece of hard SF
It’s Arthur C Clarke’s greatest novel and a classic of “hard” science fiction. The Fountains of Paradise is a brilliantly realized story of humankin…
4 years, 3 months ago
The true history of science fiction
“With Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback, H.G. Wells invented the genre of science fiction.” Tweet by @nytimesbooks, November 2021
A badly…
4 years, 4 months ago
Lord of the Rings and the fascist fantasy
Fascism lures people in with a fantasy of return to older, better times. A golden age before the modern world. Nazi Germany had the fantasy of the T…
4 years, 5 months ago
A science fiction history of World War 3
Humankind had it within our grasp to become a K1 civilization, the first stage of the Kardashev scale. But we allowed K1 to slip through our fingers…
4 years, 5 months ago
Severance – what does it mean?
Severance is sophisticated science fiction for grown up audiences in the style of J G Ballard, Philip K Dick or Haruki Murakami. But what does it me…
4 years, 5 months ago
An interview with Adam Roberts
“It’s trying to thread that needle between the wonder and the splendour in this mythology without being beguiled into actual fascism.” ~Adam Roberts…
4 years, 6 months ago
The thematic genius of Iain M Banks
This episode of the Science Fiction podcast is re-published from an original video essay first published in September 2018.
I spent years searching,…
4 years, 6 months ago
What is Solarpunk?
Solarpunk is the newest genre of science fiction, a joyous and optimistic vision of a future where humans and our technology live in balance with na…
4 years, 6 months ago
The prophetic visions of Philip K Dick
We are living in strange times. Politics. Society. Culture wars. Things have gone weird. We’re looking for knowledge and wisdom to guide us in stran…
4 years, 7 months ago
The best Scifi & Fantasy of the 21st century (Part 1 of 2)
We are 21 years into the 21st century. What better time to look at the century we are living in…the century of science fiction.
A special double ep…
4 years, 7 months ago