Science Fiction

Sequels are always a tricky prospect, especially to a film that was as much of a pop culture phenomenon as The Matrix. The Wachowski siblings had come, seemingly out of nowhere, with a bold thinker’s action movie; a film that combined the…

When I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction novel 2312 last autumn, I wasn’t sure what exactly to make of it. It was obviously science fiction – with some elements of space opera – but there was something that I couldn’t quite put my…

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” Lyndon B. Johnson was American President following the assassination of JFK four years previous, the Vietnam War was in full flow and the execution of Viet Cong Captain Nguyen Van…

Back once again for the renegade master, your NO ENCORE collective bring all the noise on a busy week. News, songs, TWO albums and a Top 10. What more do you want - blood?? ACT ONE: Some talk on The Big Fight. ACT TWO: News! Jay-Z…

Words To That Effect Episode 3: Irish Science Fiction Ireland is not, it is fair to say, the first country that springs to mind when you think “science fiction”. When aliens land on Earth, we tend to assume they’ll land in New York, or…

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (originally titled Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) is often considered to be the first science fiction novel and is a landmark of gothic fiction. First published anonymously in 1818 when Mary Shelley was…

Aishvarrya had never field serviced a nun before. Mother Ximena Macrina Massa Tigre was one of the last of the New Desert Mothers, perched high in her mountain niche on the face of Mount Roots, two thousand kilometers east of Cape Horn. The…

The statue stands on the bank of the first discovered subterranean canal. Its monumental mass and design has withstood the entire history of the settlement. The face is expressive, depicting quiet joy – for the system of canals that Sen…

During Space Week in October we launched a HeadStuff Science Mars Short Story Competition calling for science fiction stories based on the red planet. We are delighted to announce that our panel of judges, HeadStuff Literature Editor Conor,…

During Space Week this October we called for entries for a short story competition based on Mars inspired by the NASA Visions of the Future poster series (pictured above). We received some fantastic entries and it was a tough choice for our…