Nemeton

I recently watched a SF/F film, The Last Mimsy , which was rather sweet and very enjoyable, and managed to bring together Alice in Wonderlan...

A post over at Evn's place got commenters thinking about fictional religions . My favourite fictional SF religion is the earth-based on...

Chas Clifton: Kink on other planets reports on a blog-post of ten of the kinkiest SF/F novels ever.  According to the commenters, several ...

This is very exciting: astronomers at the University of Toronto have spotted a planet . Young star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 and its faint, plan...

Awesome! Bluetooth, steampunk-style: clipped from www.slipperybrick.com Nicrosin’s Victorian-style Bluetooth device should be mass produced...

Just been sent the Large Hadron Collider Rap , which as well as being funny, explains the physics rather well (at least I assume it does, si...

In a comment on a previous post about my taste in literature , The Silver Eel asked why I did not list Margaret Atwood. It's a good que...

Ursula K. Le Guin , because her science fiction is philosophical, utopian, human(e) and poetic A. S. Byatt , whose writing is nuanced, intel...

The BBC has just discovered an archive of recordings made by Delia Derbyshire , the woman who composed the classic Doctor Who theme music (...

I am currently reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (written in 1992). In the first ten or so chapters, he managed to predict Second Life...

It's the end of an era, the death of Arthur C Clarke . He was one of two authors who introduced me to science fiction (the other being ...

After I finished the wonderful The Stolen Child , I started reading I am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson. Funnily enough, both books are...

Cheshire Crossing Issue 3 by Sephalon is now posted and available for your reading pleasure. Very amusing.

A meme snagged from The Silvereel The Key: Bold the ones you've read. Strike-out the ones you hated. Italicize those you started but n...

We went to see The Prestige last night, and I must say it lived up to expectations - fine writing, acting and directing. Some elements of ...

Sci-fi is dead, long live SF - maybe. Interesting article on Wired daring to suggest that the reason Hollywood sci-fi movies aren't v...

My MA tutor sent me an interesting article on Beliefnet about Battlestar Galactica and religion . I haven't been watching the new seri...

Just finished The Time of the Angels by Iris Murdoch, a curiously claustrophobic experience. The characters seem trapped in their lives, un...