The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film is a scrupulous study of a film’s inception and its progression through to finish. (read more)
Sons Of Alpha Centauri get a little space-y with latest instrumental release ‘Continuum’ – but is it cool, Sci-Fi space or just the dark bits in between? (read more)
magine another world in which extra-terrestrials roam or slide with their cyborg affiliates. Imagine their futuristic habitats, their disasters and their strange ways of breathing, approaching, greeting, eating; more strange for being only slightly removed (read more)
Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot? (read more)
Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do (read more)
Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now (read more)
Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more (read more)
Researchers confirm the existence of a ‘lost continent’ under Mauritius (read more)
Artificial leaf serves as mini-factory for drugs (read more)
For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far (read more)
Turning to the brain to reboot computing (read more)
150 years after his birth, the influence of H.G. Wells on contemporary art is still being felt. (read more)
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. (read more)
Largest crowdsource astronomy network helps confirm discovery of ‘Tatooine’ planet (read more)
Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends (read more)
Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope (read more)
Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world’s direst problems? (read more)
Audience figures for Saturday night’s mess are the lowest ever for a Who series opener. You’d think they would have got the hint. (read more)
Although they’re still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history. (read more)
At this point, the Hugo Awards of 2015 look as good as dead, and everyone is now fighting over a corpse. (read more)
Rare live shows from the original line up of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop (read more)
The value of De Niro’s writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader.
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As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think (read more)
If the pink beam was indeed a vital message from beyond, then Phillip K Dick proved to be a totally unsuitable transmission device for it. (read more)
Off World, a new and unexpected threat to Phil’s razor-edged peace of mind was lurking in the wings. Its name was Blade Runner (read more)
‘Plastic explosives had been used to open his filing cabinets and many important manuscripts, letters, notes and possessions were missing.’ Philip K. Dick’s trials continue. (read more)
A new audience of potheads, tripsters and scene makers had no doubt that, when it came to psychedelic science fiction, Phil was the man (read more)
Berkeley in the early fifties was a hotbed of radical thought and a young Phil stumbled through it with an impish sense of humour alienating Marxists, Trotskyites and ‘free thinkers’ alike with his radical and often whimsical opinions. (read more)
‘If you want to pull off this kind of high-wire surrealist polemic, you need to write with confidence and daring. Even if your daily existence off the page is fractured by neurotic behaviour patterns.’ SWP muses on Gerry Reith’s Neutron Gun (read more)
Insectoid Martian colonizers buried for millions of years under an East End tube station, hauntings by ghosts of extra-terrestrials, biological food vats that turn out to be alien life forms attempting to re-terraform the planet, showers of small meteors filled with mind altering substances, and silent uniformed men in black helmets guarding the chemical plant at the Newtown on Winnerton flats. (read more)
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