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Exploring the Afterlife
Sum, Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman, is a hugely entertaining, often thought-provoking book. Each very short story describes a quirky version of life after death. There is an...
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The Little Things
The classic little sci-fi film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1958) was a metaphor for the atomic angst of the 1950s but it’s themes have not dated – Fukishima has revived fears of radioactive...
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Ray Bradbury, The Best
The things that you do should be things that you love; and the things that you love should be things you do. – Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury has died. His stories are like mountains in my reading...
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Forbidden Planet
The movie that forever changed my attitude to the future. – Michio Kaku Forbidden Planet is a classic sci-fi movie about an advanced society that has destroyed itself through technology. It shares...
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Unsung NZ Books
Three neglected science fiction books by New Zealand writers: The Red Dust by Bee Baldwin (1965) is one of the first NZ post-apocalyptic novels. A deadly red dust released by Antarctic drilling wipes...
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A Wrinkle In Time
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle was ahead of its time with its wormholes and angels. New writers take note that it was rejected 26 times because its ideas were so ground-breaking back in 1960....
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Even Daleks Love Bees
Daleks exterminate, and humans do too: We’re killing the bees, who make our food. Bees make us honey, and food for free, But Daleks love bees, so why can’t we? Perhaps it’s because the Daleks have a...
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Wells, Welles, wells
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched… So begins The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. But some did believe it 75 years ago on...
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Sci-Fi Classics
I loved science fiction when I was a young teen – especially short stories about time travel, which usually had surprise endings. In Arthur C Clarke’s All the Time in the World, a man freezes time a...
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I’m writing a sci-fi novel and falling into two traps: Infodump and Unobtainium. Infodump is a when a character gives a mini lecture — telling instead of showing — such as in reply to “Tell me,...
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