“According to the anthropic principle […] we inhabit a universe full of violence and unpredictability, but one so finely-tuned that … More
Tag: Post Modernism
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
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
Envisioning Banality
“There is no real and no imaginary except at a certain distance. What happens when this distance, even the one … More
Mr. Ballard, He Say No
“I thought the whole problem SF faced was that its consciousness, critically speaking, had been raised to wholly inappropriate heights-the … More
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