Sound
Sons of a Galactic Wasteland
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)
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News
Sci-Fi Polititicism Meets Erudite Poetry
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)
Features
And Phil Keeps on Falling: Blade Runner 2049
Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot? (read more)
News
Would You Trust a Car to Make an Ethical Decision?
Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do (read more)
Sound
Resisting Cosy Nostalgia at the Science Museum (Radiophonic Workshop, live)
Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now (read more)
Society
Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17
Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more (read more)
News
One We Haven’t Ruined Yet: Geologists Find Lost Continent
Researchers confirm the existence of a ‘lost continent’ under Mauritius (read more)
News
Drug-Producing Artificial Leaf Can Grow Paracetemol on Mars
Artificial leaf serves as mini-factory for drugs (read more)
Features
Consumed By Cronenberg
For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far (read more)
News
Fuzzy Logic, Artisan Mathematicians: The Quest for Organic Computers
Turning to the brain to reboot computing (read more)
Society
Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells (Part Two)
150 years after his birth, the influence of H.G. Wells on contemporary art is still being felt. (read more)
Features
Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. (read more)
News
Newly Discovered Circumbinary Exoplanet Resembles Tatooine
Largest crowdsource astronomy network helps confirm discovery of ‘Tatooine’ planet (read more)
Society
The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)
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)
Society
David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar
Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope (read more)
News
Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?
Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world’s direst problems? (read more)
Features
TV at its most cynical. The Magician’s Apprentice (Doctor Who)
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)
Society
The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015
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)
Society
Watching the Hugos burn. Sci-Fi Controversy Wreaks Havoc
At this point, the Hugo Awards of 2015 look as good as dead, and everyone is now fighting over a corpse. (read more)
Events
BBC Radiophonic Workshop : Southbank Centre
Rare live shows from the original line up of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop (read more)
Society
Alan De Niro : Tyrannia
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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Society
Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man
As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think (read more)
Society
Wings of Wax and a Missed Payday
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)
Society
Sometimes the Stars Rain Down Hard
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)
Society
Philip K. Dick : 2-3-74
‘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)
Society
And Phil Kept Falling Pt. 2
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)
Society
And Phil Kept Falling
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)
Society
The Man With the Neutron Gun
‘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)
Society
Fringe, It’s Quatertastic!
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)