What Makes a Good Hard Sci Fi Story Today
Last week, I found myself arguing with a friend about whether *The Martian* counts as “real” science fiction. She insisted it was just “survival porn...
Last week, I found myself arguing with a friend about whether *The Martian* counts as “real” science fiction. She insisted it was just “survival porn...
The strangest thing happened last week while I was browsing a bookstore in Bath. I picked up this sci-fi novel with the most gorgeous cover...
Last week, I found myself defending *Blade Runner* to my neighbour’s teenage son, who’d dismissed it as “too slow and confusing.” He’d grown up on...
You know that feeling when you’re scrolling through Netflix and a particular title just *looks* like it belongs in the future? Before you even read...
There’s something magical about finding a book that nobody else seems to know about — you know that feeling when you’re holding this incredible story...
You know that moment when a film hits you so hard that you walk out of the cinema feeling like the world’s been rewired? I...
There’s this moment every sci-fi reader knows — you’re thirty pages into something that seemed promising, and suddenly you realise the author has confused impressive-sounding...
You know that feeling when you’re reading a book and suddenly can’t tell if the magic is supposed to be real or if there’s some...
You know that moment when you’re stuck in traffic, watching brake lights stretch endlessly ahead, and your mind starts wandering to whether we’ll ever have...
The moment I first watched *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* – the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland – I understood something fundamental about fear in...