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Tag Archives: Sci-Fi
A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
The 1827 novel, The Mummy: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, by Jane Webb, was reissued last month as part of the Haunted Library of Horror Classics series. Originally issued as a three-volume pocket-sized novel, the book concerns the Egyptian mummy … Continue reading
Posted in Books, ebooks, Europe, Film, History
Tagged Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sci-Fi, The Mummy
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Inspired by Jose Saramago
Frequent visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware of my appreciation for the writing of the late Ursula K. Le Guin. If memory serves, I first discovered her work in the magazine Amazing Stories. The first of her … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, USA, Writing
Tagged blogging, Jose Saramago, Sci-Fi, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Visit New Byblos in the Springtime
I am an enormous fan of Israeli sci-fi writer Lavie Tidhar, if you haven’t read his work, it’s worth checking-out. So, I was intrigued to discover that he has teamed-up with puzzle writer Jake Olefsky to create an interactive sci-fi … Continue reading
Writing Science Fiction
h/t Tom Gauld
Into The Unknown
Along with the usual summer blockbuster sci-fi flicks, this year we can immerse ourselves in the entire historical genre. London’s Barbican Centre is presenting Into The Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction, a huge exhibition, which will take over the entire Brutalist … Continue reading
We Who Are About To…
Last month, Penguin’s science fiction imprint, Penguin Worlds, republished a series of important sci-fi titles with radically redesigned covers. Here’s a sample:
Posted in Art, Books, Writing
Tagged Book design, E.Nesbit, Joanna Russ, John Christopher, Penguin, Sci-Fi
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Vintage Futures
Vintage has just republished a fantastic set of dystopian and futuristic paperback fiction in a series titles “Vintage Futures”. Each of the books includes an attached sheet of acetate that can be used to “animate” the cover image. The … Continue reading
Book of Strange New Things
I haven’t always been completely enamored with Michel Faber’s novels, but I’m still thinking about “The Book of Strange New Things” months after reading the book. Next week, the UK version of the paperback edition will be released with stunning … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Book Art, Cover Art, Michel Faber, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Friendship is an island that you retreat to…
Blank on Blank is a project from Brooklyn-based Quoted Studios, which aims to preserve American interviews through animation. The wonderful video below features a long-lost interview between the iconic author Ray Bradbury and a young journalist named Chad Coates from … Continue reading
London Is Out of This World (for the summer)
Writers and artists through history and around the globe have long imagined “other worlds” through the genre of Science Fiction. Science Fiction allows writers to ask the big questions such as: “Who are we?”, “What is reality?” A new exhibition … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Libraries, Tourism, Writing
Tagged British Library, London, Sci-Fi
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