Not because they are easy but because they are hard

“[The] question that should be haunting science fiction is: why did Ballard get it right, while all of the other … More

Philosophy of future history

“Science fiction is a historical literature because the theoretical act or the imaginative act that you perform is to postulate … More

“On waking one morning, B was surprised to see that Shepperton was deserted. He entered the kitchen at nine o’clock, … More

Hans Ulrich Obrist: In 1971 you also said, “Violence is probably going to play the same role in the ’70s … More

“Most viewers seem to have little difficulty in staking out some fairly clear territory from which to start thinking about … More

“As filtered through Horace and the power of Roman literary institutions, Aristotelian notions of genre provided the very foundation of … More

“I thought the whole problem SF faced was that its consciousness, critically speaking, had been raised to wholly inappropriate heights-the … More

“In keeping with the tendency of science to objectify the natural world, space, the numinous dimension, was gradually stripped of … More