Secret agent tales have always carried a hint of science fiction with them – futuristic gadgets, threatened world-wide annihilation. Steve examines Bond’s 60s rival – Flint – and reminds us that James Coburn was COOL.
Tanya Tynjala translates her talk with Jo Walton (a first? A translated Spanish language interview with an award winning Welsh author conducted at a Swedish science fiction convention?)
Susan Gray explores the mix of worldbuilding and dramaturgey – the art of bringing science fiction concepts to the live stage.
Find your favorites from among Netflix’s currently streaming science fiction, fantasy and horror offerings.
Review of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, focusing on prose and creativity in plot.
Use this list to help you find the television shows you want to watch.
Susana reports on the International Meeting (for) Narrative Science Fiction, Fantasy and Black Series, an international convention.
A collection of intensely intimate poetry which map a life
Every so often in life, a moment of serendipity occurs when everyone involved in a project creates something marvellous. The birth of Doctor Who, fifty years ago this week, is one of those moments.
There’s something beautiful about the live nature of theatre, that makes you feel that you’ve trespassed or that you’ve been invited
A comparison of the book and the film, following a recent read of the novel for the first time.
Review of Override by Stacey Gregg performed at the Watford Palace Theatre.
Review of Las peripecias inéditas de Teofilus Jones by Fedosy Santaella.
Just like every high-quality short story, it doesn’t have to be complicated to be good. To prove that, dailysciencefiction.com has provided a convenient outlet for finding well written original work in the genre.
Este post tenía que ser originalmente un recuento de todo lo ocurrido en el Swecon de este año, llamado Fantastika 2013
Rough Trade, Steve’s edgy, comedic flash fiction examination of the Fermi Paradox is accompanied by some background of the author and some thoughts on the writing process.
Escape Pod is a publication which has embraced the digital age. They pay their authors at a professional level, but their stories are available for free as podcast, and also for reading on their site.
Peter F. Hamilton is one of Britain’s best-selling SF authors. Hamilton’s novels hark back to the great days of science fiction, reveling in big ideas and unafraid to tackle hard science.
Octavia Butler era una chica negra, pobre, inusualmente alta, tímida, tartamuda, disléxica y lesbiana. Desde muy joven tuvo una idea bastante clara de lo que era la discriminación en sus muchas formas y utilizó la ciencia ficción para explorar temas sociales antiguos y modernos.
It’s no secret that popular science has exploded when we see the amount of paperbacks, TV series and documentaries on the subject, and theatre is no exception. Copenhagen is by far the most notable example, […]
Autumn in New England serves to transport me immediately into a Halloween world – where one finds Vampires. In Anime!
What Is Science Fiction? More on the international view of what is and what might not be SF
Is it possible to restrict science fiction by establishing definitions?
I was deep into Gundam Wing starting in middle school, and it was the catalyst for me to start taking drawing and writing very seriously.
Over four decades Pat Mills has been a major force in keeping the British comics industry alive. I caught up with him to chat about the reappearance of one of his most enduringly popular characters, the Celtic barbarian, Sláine.
s\Some writers who might have started off in science fiction soon reveal their true selves when they start publishing what they really want to write about.
SF theatre can draw upon the symbolic imagery that Theatre can house – a relatively small transformative space where a spear can become the symbol of an army, a chair that becomes someone’s lover or family member
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