“George Lucas, according to his biographer, Dale Pollock, wanted to recapature the romance of space that had been kindled in … More
Category: Criticism
Black box recorder
“SF names not a generic effects engine of literature and simulation arts (the usual sense of the phrase “science fiction”), … More
The world outside fiction
“Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact … More
The world around them
“…The challenge of finding a suitable means to examine the “postmodern condition” has produced a vigorous and highly energized response … More
Neither and/or
“The term slipstream was coined by Bruce Sterling in a column he wrote for a fanzine called SF Eye in … More
This is the end
“The world was ending then, it’s ending still, and I’m happy to belong to it again….” The author of these … More
Echo & Narcissus
“Both reverberation and echo are reflected sound. Echo occurs when a Sound is reflected in such a way that the … More
The immense void of space
“Galactic-empire fiction has always been an important branch of space opera: action-packed, adolescent, cheerfully anachronistic, deriving its world structure very … More
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