There is little doubt that the major contribution of the BBC to the genre was Doctor Who so that is where I will start. I belong to the generation who remember when Doctor Who started back in November 1963 when I was nine and a half years old. The first episode was the day after […]
Like most things in this field, Space Opera is a fairly broad category and some of the material I have written about comes into that category. At its heart, it generally takes place at an epic scale with interstellar conflict in futuristic settings. Technology plays a significant part and there are lots of battles and […]
So Tolkien started the idea of a three-volume fantasy series, something that has been much copied since. Over time, as people developed complete universes with a broader range of characters the number of volumes increased and they became addictive. Game of Thrones is an obvious example of this and there the demands of the Television […]
Yesterday saw one author, today we will have a plethora as the sheer number of authors who have engaged with religion is (sic) legion, if not Gaderine in nature. There are also many ways in which religion is treated. One of the more interesting forms, and one of the first I came across is exploring […]
One of the characteristics of many early science fiction writers could be summed up as great ideas, terrible writing, in part because the genre as a whole was not taken that seriously. It took time, but if I was being cynical then these days it’s more like the same ideas but much better writing. The […]
Science fiction has always attracted the film industry and more recently television mega series, with Game of Thrones and Wheel of Time on the plus side but we also have the disastrous adaptation of Foundation. Dave, stop it. Stop, will you? Stop Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, […]
Today’s post focuses on Prof Jack Cohen and is a belated tribute to his work. He died in 2019 and was a good friend and a key member of the group of complexity scientists & thinkers we worked with while I was in IBM. That included Max Boisot, Brian Goodwin, Bill McKelvey, Peter Allen and […]
As promised I am moving on today to a more dystopian theme with specific books from two of my favourite authors Neil Stephenson and Iain M Banks. Both of them have in common novels in which the transfer of a human to a virtual environment is deemed possible. They also both deal with what […]
This is the first of two posts that will juxtapose the work of a modern writer with a classic from the past. A future post will look at Terry Pratchett as the modern-day Swift. Today I want to position Jasper Fforde as the modern-day Lewis Carroll hence the opening picture. For those who don’t know […]
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