There are robots and extraterrestrials, androids and cyborgs, hyperdrives and wormholes. Characters beam Earthside and chat over commlinks; meanwhile, in cyberspace, digitized avatars and AI routines
Category: science fiction
Does science fiction need plausible science?
Some debates are just doomed to be repeated ad infinitum. One that seems to pop up on my radar every few months is the question
Review: The Martian, by Andy Weir
It’s not often that I read novels in the same year that they were published – my usual reading interests are very much based in the nineteenth
In Defence of Spirituality
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar has come under attack for its conflated vision of science and spirituality, and an ending which suggests that love is a certifiable force
The Genealogy of Interstellar
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar was one of my most anticipated films of the year. It was like a checklist of things that I wanted to see
On the Origins of Science Fiction
Who wrote the first work of science fiction? The answer to that question will change depending on who you ask. Some critics look back to
Andrew R. Cameron 