After worrying that my trip abroad may not provide the sort of science-fictional entertainment that I’m accustomed to, I should’ve realised: if there’s something nerdy
Category: science-fictionality
Words of Other Worlds (Part 1)
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
The Jobs Continuum
The future is not going to be a happy place. This seems to be the prevailing message in the glut of dystopian narratives that dominate
The Flammarion engraving
A few readers have asked me about the picture that I use as the banner for my blog. The Flammarion engraving has quite an interesting
We’re all living in Clarke’s world
It would be remiss of me not to write a quick post about Arthur C. Clarke on the sixth anniversary of his death. I was
Time Enough at Last
I’m beginning to appreciate how the character of Henry Bemis must have felt in the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last.” A lover of
Andrew R. Cameron 