A profound commentary on the construction of Indian identity This much we know to be true: During the era that we in the West call the 14th ...

The Revelation Space Universe

Awards season rolls around once more, and so it is time for our annual discussion of the Clarke Award shortlist. The Arthur C. Clarke Award...

Ray Nayler

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Contending Human and Alien Minds

A Thriller with Depth

Ursula K. LeGuin

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The Book of the New Sun - Part 3

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven

The Book of the New Sun - Part 2

The Book of the New Sun - Part 1

Astounding new images taken from the Artemis 2 mission.

Visions of Future Worlds

This is a book—and a trilogy—that can be characterised in very different ways.

A smart, visceral, unapologetic cry of rebellion The rules of the game are ambiguous from the beginning. Speaking from beyond the grave, Mar...

How George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones took over popular culture

Before I turn my back on 2025, I’m catching up on all the films I saw in the second half of the year (a stack, thanks to the Inverness Film Festival in November). There’s 3 new favourites, ma…

The Duffer brothers stick the landing, bringing a close to nine years of epic storytelling Volume II of the Stranger Things final season dro...

The Mass Market paperback format is ending with a whimper

Paul Thomas Anderson has made an absolute masterpiece about rebellion, standing up to power, and hope. I went into One Battle After Another...

Alfred Bester wrote two important science fiction novels in the 1950s - The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. While I have some reservations

Ray Nayler’s haunting novel, Where the Axe Is Buried, draws us into a dystopian world governed in most countries by AIs, and in one Federation, by a

Elizabeth Bear’s The Folded Sky, the third novel in her White Space series, tells a stand-alone story, full of grand space opera tropes, including

In 1953 Alfred Bester won the first Hugo award for his novel, The Demolished Man. It’s easy to see why. This is a fast-paced story in an interesting

Who knew you could laugh during a Superman movie? After the long night of the Snyderverse, the new Superman  feels like a much-needed palate...

Mohamed Kheir’s Sleep Phase, beautifully translated by Robin Moger (who also translated Kheir's story collection, Slipping) brought to mind related

In season two, I never expected to become such a fan of Luthen and Kleya. In some ways, episode nine is the end of Andor season two in that...

The 1950s were steeped in Cold War paranoia, nuclear dread, and a dawning awareness that human progress could be as destructive as it was miraculous. While A-list sci-fi films like The Day the Earth S...

Malka Older, activist, scholar, teacher, international humanitarian worker and author of The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses is one of my culture heroes

With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago