Chortle Festival Comes to London
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The dangers of being strange
Imagine a white hot day blazing around you, created by blinding and numbing sunlight, all colours scrubbed cleaner and brighter and the air too hot to breathe. As I read L’etranger – usually translated as either The Stranger or The Outsider – a similar atmosphere appeared to surround me...
Are they worse than animals?
Calum Grant discusses a book about bankers
WTH is NaNoWriMo?
Keir Little thinks that you should know
Take nothing for granted
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. “
Smart and Funny: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Calum Grant explores a nefarious plot to educate cartoon viewers
Point your face at this
Emma Wills on Demetri Martin's new book of drawings
An interview with Simon Singh
Calum Grant interviews science writer Simon Singh.
Scalzi’s Old Man’s War
John Scalzi is one of the highest profile science fiction authors alive. A prolific writer, he was also President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, consulted on the hit TV show Stargate Universe, maintains a hugely popular blog and is an outspoken activist for many good...
Best of Henry James
Eva Rosenthal on the bibliography of Henry James
Soho Literary Festival
Maciej Matuszewski discusses an entertaining and interesting event
Your Autumn Genre Literature Picks
The best of the bunch from Sci Fi society