I had this really good idea for a post, a sort of companion piece to my British sf Masterworks. Films... Science fiction films... British science fiction films. How about a list of the best twenty-five sf films from the UK? Everyone likes lists.

Except... I couldn't find twenty-five good British sf films - either that I'd seen or that I'd would be ( Read more... )

Among the books recommended to me by others for inclusion on my list of British sf masterworks (see here) was A Man of Double Deed
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After all the comments on my list of 50 British science fiction masterworks, I decided to revisit it. There were several authors I'd inadvertently left off - and no, I've no idea how I managed to miss Paul J McAuley (sorry); but he's on there now. There were also a couple of books I listed which, on reflection, were either too peripheral to the ( Read more... )

Several of the authors I included in my fifty British SF Masterworks list (see here), I’d not actually read. And with good reason - they’re more or less forgotten. One such author was Rex Gordon, the pen-name of Stanley Bennett Hough, born in 1917, who wrote nine science fiction novels between 1953 and 1969. Of those novels, the best-known is ( Read more... )