LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN CENTURY: 1969 Cheat Sheet
Newsarama
They're actually from what's considered one of the first categorized works of science fiction, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, which…oh, Moore. You dirty, dirty, boy. The Vril are a subterranean race that caused quite a …

Rocketing back into the limelight as sci-fi legend's work is uncovered
Aberdeen Press and Journal
… James Murdoch MacGregor was burning the midnight oil, dreaming up 24 science fiction novels which were translated into more than a dozen languages and earned him comparisons with the likes of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. His books, written …

The Sci-fi Brontës are surprise inclusion in British Library's Science fiction …
Culture24
“The Brontës are well known authors with no association with science fiction, but their tiny manuscript books are one of the first examples of fan fiction,” says guest curator Andy Sawyer. Sawyer points to the way the Brontës created favourite …

PENSIONER Joan Shaw might not look like the kind of lady who'd be interested …
This is Nottingham
Maureen, 78, says: "It's an invaluable service. We must get about ten books out a month. We like everything – apart from science fiction and westerns. And Eric likes romances." She pauses to ask me how long I'm going to be asking her questions, …

Joe Cornish: Why I wanted aliens to invade south London
The Independent
Britain has a long tradition in shaping science fiction in books and television – the British Library exhibition looks at writers as diverse as Thomas More, Mary Shelley, JG Ballard and China Miéville – but has less of a history when it comes to cinema …

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David Lodge's top 10 HG Wells books
The Guardian
He is probably best known today as the author of classic works of science fiction, but he published well over 100 books in his lifetime, of many different kinds: novels and short stories that were realistic, fantastic, comic, tragic, and didactic, …

Freelance Journalist Focus: Stevie Cooke
FeaturesExec Media Bulletin
I always have a huge pile of lifestyle magazines that I sift through. It's important to know if you're thinking about pitching something that has just been done. Other than that, anything non-fiction about history, media or science and I'm quite …

Study: Third Grade Reading Level Indicates Student's Chances Of Graduating …
Huffington Post
After I discovered science fiction in 4th grade I would read a sci-fi book and have three encyclopedia open at the same time. But the science fiction has become more literary and adult oriented since the 60s. What sci-fi is good for young kids and …

Russia's cosmonauts of dystopia
The Guardian
… and people are reading fewer books. It's a climate ripe for dystopian fantasy – and so it's perhaps not surprising that many of the most interesting young writers are turning to the tropes of science fiction, while regarding Gagarin as the spirit …

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Diana Wynne Jones, Children's Author, Dies at 76
New York Times
… Ms. Jones's work was especially relished by connoisseurs of the young-adult fantasy and science fiction genres. She wrote more than 35 books, including the Chrestomanci series, which focuses on a powerful enchanter who presides over a world in …
Diana Wynne Jones dies at 76 – British fantasy writer influenced many authorsExaminer.com

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