Flag dir. Takahashi Ryōsuke
Takahashi Ryōsuke’s Flag is an anomaly in the anime landscape; what seems at first to be a serious political thriller in the vein of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone … Continue reading
Liberation; Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America – Brian Francis Slattery
Once upon a time there was a great country called the United States of America; it produced some of the most enduring music, art and literature ever created in English, … Continue reading
Harmony – Project Itoh
A dystopia with a difference, Project Itoh’s Harmony is a politically complex novel that neatly avoids the right-wing propagandising its premise might support, and instead presents a nuanced and challenging … Continue reading
Metrozone Trilogy – Simon Morden
Pure comic book violence and no nuance, Simon Morden’s Metrozone trilogy is probably the most fun anyone has ever had with cyberpunk tropes. Reading like the strangely literate ramblings of … Continue reading
The Dark Beyond the Stars – Frank M. Robinson
Frank M. Robinson’s the Dark Beyond the Stars is a thrilling tale of intrigue and memory set aboard a decaying generational starship in which an obssessive, semi-immortal captain is … Continue reading
Light – M. John Harrison
The first thing you’ll notice upon picking up a copy of M. John Harrison’s Light is just how many pages of effuse praise you have to flick through to reach … Continue reading
The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman’s the Forever War is a novel born out of human experience, and most definitely a product of its time. Although it is now a respected classic, with … Continue reading
We Who Are About to… – Joanna Russ
First published in 1977, We Who Are About to… is Joanna Russ’ follow up to her Feminist science fiction classic, the Female Man. A cynical take on science fiction’s obsession … Continue reading
Gandahar
Gandahar is a French animated science fiction film from 1987 in which the denizens of a New Wave sci fi-style ecotopia are turned into statues by robot invaders from the … Continue reading
Superluminal – Vonda N. McIntyre
Written in 1983, Vonda N. McIntyre’s Superluminal shows an author reaching to stay with the times. Already the iconoclasts at Cheap Truth were tearing down what they saw as the … Continue reading
Deep Space Whine 