All hail our robot overlords. It’s not a question of ‘if’ they take over, but ‘when’. This collection of short…
This book is one of my favourite reads this year. It’s one of those novels which you can’t help but…
‘Only trains can ride the K-bahn: the old, wise trains of the Empire, barracuda-beautiful, dreaming their dreams of speed and…
If these are some of the finest short stories ever written, I’ll eat my hat. And my gloves, coat and…
“I’m not going around the world again. I tell you, this is it!” says Michael Palin as he rushes to…
Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece is not a straightforward ‘film of the book’, nor is it a ‘book of the…
Have you heard of the Quilombo of Palmares? Or the Free State of Bottleneck? How about The Soviet Republic of…
If you could travel in time, would you visit the past or the future? I think I’d prefer the past.…
It’s strange to see a Simon Reeve documentary on a place I’ve actually visited. Usually he’s trekking through the jungle…
One of my favourite short story collections, this well-thumbed Corgi edition from 1963 has the lyrical sense of wonder that…