Looking backwards, moving forwards: 10 of the best at Sci-Fi-London 2018 first published by Sight & Sound Includes capsules of: Word From A Gamer, Closer Than We Think, Hidden Reserves, Peaches, The Gateway, Chimera, Violentia, The Astronauts’ Bodies, Cygnus, Nothing Really Happens Even the most forward-thinking of genres still builds its future visions on the foundations of the present and the past. And so the common if…
The Great Escape: Sci-Fi-London 2017 first published by Sight & Sound Amongst the many things that science fiction can do – run speculative thought experiments, stage humanity’s encounters with otherness, explore the outer limits of knowledge and imagination, use the future (in much the same way that period narratives use the past) to allegorise and defamiliarise…
First published by Sight & Sound The very label ‘science fiction’ speaks of a collision between bounded realities and less bounded speculations – and while this broadest of genres can certainly accommodate all manner of spectacular actions and space operas, it is often at its best when privileging big ideas. So here is a preview…
First published by Sight & Sound Sci-Fi-London 15: 29 May – 5 June, 2015 Science fiction has of late been achieving stratospheric levels of attention. This year’s most lucrative tentpole titles look set to be Mad Max: Fury Road and its reemergent wastelands, a new entry in the Star Wars cycle and a seemingly endless phase of collaborative or…