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At the end of each episode of In Our Time, there is an additional few minutes for podcast listeners which always starts with Melvyn Bragg asking his guests what aspects of the topic they would have liked to cover but were missed. So I thought I would do the same at the end of this […]
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It is now the evening of Epiphany, the twelfth day of Christmas in the Christian tradition, which ends this series. I may add a post tomorrow, to make a Baker’s dozen, to reference some of the material I haven’t discussed from Science Fiction and Fantasy. Then from Sunday, there will be a series of posts […]
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In the penultimate post in this series, I want to pick up on three trilogies: The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood, The Broken Earth Trilogy by N K Jemisin and two trilogies, culminating in a tetralogy with Stephen R Donaldson’s The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. All three are by outstanding authors, all three explore difficult […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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