London burning: history just went sci-fi
The Guardian (blog)
To me, it all seems uncanny and reminiscent of late Victorian science fiction. Even the place names have that quality of ordinariness that Wells exploits in his fantasy of a London apocalypse: Tottenham in flames, insurrection in Enfield, …

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Science Fiction Author Christopher Priest in QUAD, Derby
Creative Boom
Christopher Priest, one of the UK's leading authors of literary science fiction, will be in QUAD, Derby for a book reading and film event in September. Christopher Priest is best known for his book The Prestige, which was subsequently made into a film. …

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Denis: TV football in 3D? Why not go to a match?
Huddersfield Examiner (blog)
This is the sort of immersion technology that has been featured in science fiction films and is usually the province of video gaming. The system takes the shots from several cameras and stitches them together to provide a panoramic view. …

This Island Earth
About – News & Issues
The people behind today's effects-obsessed science fiction dreadnoughts need to see This Island Earth immediately. I'll mention Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie only to say this: If you've seen it and think you've seen This Island Earth, …

Norwich City and QPR back in the Premier League after time away
The Guardian (blog)
Prozone had not been invented; if anyone had told us about it we'd have thought they were talking science fiction." Dressing-room camaraderie was generated by English humour. "Foreign players have improved the Premier League dramatically but when …

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Editor's Choice: Acclaimed writer Carol Ann Duffy on Rabbie Burns, midges and …
Scottish Daily Record
"I've been around midges before but this time was so bad it felt like something quite different – like being in a science fiction movie." Morgan's Midge begins: "See the innocents, my sisters, the clumsy ones, the laughing ones, the rolled-up sleeves …

Local news: Trek along to annual sci-fi group dinner
Scotsman
Trekkies across the Lothians are expected to descend on the annual dinner of the USS Valkyrie, Edinburgh's Science Fiction and Fantasy group. The event, at the Canons' Gait bar, costs £5 deposit to secure entry. It will feature auctions, raffles, …

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Marking a century with Gilbert greats
Sheffield Telegraph
It could also be called an early work of science fiction. The complex plot involves a man called Frederick Foggerty who enlists the help of a fairy to change a small event in his past so that he can marry the girl he loves with results that are far …

The Diary: Hari Kunzru
Financial Times
I was particularly happy to make it out to Limehouse Town Hall in east London where Evan Calder Williams, a cultural theorist, and China Miéville, a science-fiction writer, were taking part in a discussion about “Salvagepunk”, which can very roughly be …

Paul Woods, 1948-2011
University of Bristol
a pointer for those in the know to his love of TV science fiction. He was never slow to introduce his many extracurricular interests to a work setting – for instance, the EndNote workbook that he developed drew heavily in its example exercises on his …