Ray Bradbury once said that he didn’t write science fiction. Science fiction is about the possible; he wrote fantasy. Events in his books “couldn’t happen.” [1] An argument could be made...
First published in serial form in the 1950s The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories that together tell the story of humanity colonising Mars. Almost all the stories are...
Like an eejit I missed my deadline for my Coursera yoke today. I had a rough draft written at lunch and should have submitted it then, but thought I’d have time...
Just as with Dracula most of us are familiar with the story of Frankenstein and his creation, even if popular culture often refers to the monster by that name. It probably...
The first assignment for the Fantasy & Science Fiction course I’m doing was on The Grimm Brothers’ Household Tales. For the assignment we were asked to “Please write an essay that...
A week or so I came across mention of this online course, I’m not sure where, I’d guess it was on Metafilter. That is where I get all my information about...
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