“Anthropology, perception psychology, neurology, phenomenological sociology, ethnomethodology and even ethology (in its study of imprinting in animals), all confirm the … More
Category: Literature
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
Horse lover fat
Some time over the next year a new movie, Radio Free Albemuth, starring Alanis Morissette, is due to be released. … 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
Burn the manifesto
“Partly Mundanity was also the result of asking: what’s worked best in the past? My favourite SF authors such as … 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
The rule of exceptions
“William Gibson is a science fiction writer, so is this science fiction? The answer is yes and no. Unlike Vonnegut, … More
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