Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 16 May 2004.
SUBSTANCE D (mors ontologica) tames smooth muscle spasm (commonly known as the “Black Shakes”), as well as split-brain syndrome resulting from information overload and post-capitalist inertia.
SUB DEE provides effective relief in patients of all ages, also combating subsidiary BS ailments such as: hyper-motility of the gut, infant colic, […]
still from The What If? Man, dir. Mark Atkin
interview by Simon Sellars
Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 25 November 2003.
Mark Atkin is a Melbourne editor working in film and television. His first feature as director, The What If? Man: The Science Fictional Life of Peter Nicholls, looks at the life and career of Peter Nicholls, science […]
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This represents the first academic article I had published, back when I was attempting my PhD for the first time. It was actually written in 1996 and delivered at the Speaking Science Fiction conference organised by the University of Liverpool, but remarkably the edited collection of conference papers wasn’t published until four years later.
Originally […]
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reviews by Simon Sellars
Originally published in Orb Speculative Fiction #0, Spring-Summer 1999.
Robotomy by Andrés Vaccari. Saturn Press, $12.95. ISBN 0 646 32003 3
Abaddon #2 edited by Andrés Vaccari. Saturn Press, $6.95. ISSN 1441-046X.
Robotomy
In the 1960s, Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds magazine ushered in the “New Wave” of science fiction. The stories Moorcock published – including JG […]
