Granny Weatherwax was not an advertisement for witchcraft. Oh, she was one of the best at it, no doubt about that. At a certain kind,...

Pratchett's go-to figure in the series for law and order. If Vimes agrees, we can usually be assured that it's the just option.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that sci-fi shows are the first to get the boot.

This is a classic story combining dark fantasy, horror and coming of age.

Where, when and why did we decide that April 1st was a good day to pull pranks on one another? Well, like many weird aspects of our...

What a strange new world we find ourselves in. I guess every generation has it's one-in-a-lifetime, to tell your grandkids about, event.

The Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by the Sc-Fi novelist and double Hugo Award-winning Kameron Hurley.

2020 is just around the corner. In these troubling times, it's helpful to have an idea of what's in store. Well, fear not, here are a few...

I think if this movie had come out today, the reviews would have been more favourable...

What does every alternate version of history have, from steampunk to dystopias? Airships, of course! In fact, I’ve just finished reading...

My neighbour Mrs Cassidy keeps bees

Here’s my list of five signs that you're dealing with a clichéd bad guy...

What does Lucifer, The Umbrella Academy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Bones, Red Dwarf and Stargate SG-1 have in common?

How much fiction will we put up with our science? Why did series like Star Trek apparently predict technology which is now abundant?

Neil Gaiman has said: 'I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.'

George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic example, but it turns up in pop culture a lot in the 1950s.

Lovecraft experienced episodes of parasomnia ‘night terrors’ from the tender age of six.

There are many fathers of science fiction. But it's Hugo Gernsback we must thank for making science fiction the genre it is today.

Only days before a massive exhibition is due to open at the New York Museum of Natural History, there is a brutal series of murders.

Here are five alternatives to sitting down at the keyboard which will help the next time you do.