At the heart of Space Sweepers is a blunt instrument named Dorothy – a hunted, vulnerable, super-cute innocent discovered aboard a derelict spacecraft. Watching her…
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Nemesis is a bad film, yet any teenaged boy of the 1990s would surely have savoured its many strange flavours. Director Albert Pyun makes excellent…
Comments closedMany of our earliest stories were shaped by the weather, as the struggle for survival was decided in significant part by the success or failure…
Comments closedWhat exactly is it that we find so unnerving about the proliferation of autonomous weapon systems? Reporting on the 2017 International Joint Conference on Artificial…
Comments closedThere’s nothing quite like a robot to help spin a good story. Automatons offer scifi scribblers an opportunity to create our own Frankenstein tales: of…
Comments closedYes, there is a lot of silly fun on display in the 1996 John Carpenter Snake-fest, Al Leong is still merrily energising the background, and…
Comments closedSuper soldiers are not the easiest subject matter for the science fiction writer in search of heroes. Too many soldiers with too much technology inevitably…
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