[ACADEMIC] MY LATEST PIECE OF SCI-FI ANALYSIS IS NOW AVAILABLE!

My piece of sci-fi analysis, ‘Less than Human: Visions of Future Evolution in Science Fiction, 1985-2015’ as just been published in the Keio University Hiyoshi Review of English Studies.  Here’s the abstract: ‘As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the…
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[FICTION] ‘THE GODS HAVE NO FACES’ IS OUT NOW!

My short story ‘The Gods Have No Faces’ has just been published in Mythaxis magazine. You can read it for free here! A short blurb from the publication: ‘One of the great joys of speculative fiction is World Building. As a writer, it’s creating new environments from, so to speak, the ground up; as a…
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ENDLESS

Before the boy kills his father the two of them arrive at a pair of vast steel blast doors. An aperture yawns in the wall to the left and inside are two loaves of bread the size of their forearms and a bowl of steamed vegetables in a pastry case. They extract their meal, gingerly…
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[OPINION] ANIARA – ASTONISHING AND DEPRESSING

Aniara (dir. Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman, 2018): 7/10 A colony ship leaves earth. It bumps into some debris which knocks it off course. It wanders out into the outer dark of the solar system. So far, so sci-fi, and a little ho-hum. It’s in the later, more demented, part of this movie that the original, haunting vision of…
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