>… in The Golden Compass. I’m not picking these out because the CGI’s good (which for the most part it is) but because they’re that
>I recently re-read Arthur C Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, having not picked it up since I was a teenager. What struck me – apart from
>One of the cheekiest names in speculative literature has to be Hiro Protagonist. Neal Stephenson’s arguably the only writer who could pull this off –
>I once wrote a story called Dead Wolf in a Hat in which I fooled around with some of the standard werewolf conventions. In researching
>… in A Matter of Life and Death. Models, matte paintings and a healthy dose of Powell and Pressburger’s quirky English surreality create a quirky
>I’ve travelled many times to Mars, courtesy of Bradbury and Dick and Baxter et al, but never to Barsoom. It’s a shameful gap in my
