The winners of the 2015 Hugo Awards will be announced this Saturday at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention in Spokane, Washington. This year’s awards have been beleaguered
Category: science fiction
Review: Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson
As I was reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora, I kept thinking of that old quote from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one
Review: The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Back in 2010, I was fortunate enough to be at the 68th World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne when Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut novel The Windup
Nostalgia ad infinitum
Jurassic World has been a massive commercial success, smashing opening weekend records and looking like it could even reach the lofty box office peaks of Titanic
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse
The runaway success – and critical acclaim – of Mad Max: Fury Road has confirmed once again that post-apocalypse narratives remain in popular demand. These stories have a long
Frankensaurus Strikes Back
When the trailer for Jurassic World was released in November, I wrote a blog post arguing that science fiction texts need to take a more
