‘Pinocchio’ (2022: directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson)

The First Generation Starship

Since faster-than-light travel is impossible, and the stars are so very, very far away, any craft making interstellar journeys will take many centuries to get where it is going. If they are crewed, then generations of people will be born aboard these ships, live and die and be…

Adam Roberts

Mar 15

Star Wars: Crash 2

“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion…

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka ‘Daniels’ 2022)

Every review everywhere all-of-them agrees on the excellence of this movie, and I’m certainly not going to disagree. It is (maybe) a tad over-long, and in particular…

Adam Roberts

Feb 23

Brian Aldiss, ‘Life in the West’ (1980)

It’s not science fiction, this novel, although it includes some discussion of science…

Adam Roberts

Feb 13

Iain M. Banks, “Inversions” (1998)

I bought Inversions from Methven’s Bookshop (remember them?) in 1998 when it came out; £16.99 which-was-a-lot-of-money-back-then, signed by the author no less. I have no strong memory of reading it; as far as I can recall I was underwhelmed. But re-reading it recently…