Dystopic and utopian; beautiful and ugly – the 20th iteration of the biennale offers an intriguing, if uneven, reflection of the here and now One of the most fascinating trends in contemporary art ...

Bob Fowke's Shrewsbury inspired spread in Science Fiction Monthly in September 1974 A collection of work by artist Bob Fowke will go on display at the Barn at Writer's Lodge, in Union Street, in ...

The one-of-a-kind 1972 film from director Andrei Tarkovsky has plenty of striking visuals of its own. Thanks to the near-perfect 1961 novel from Stanislaw Lem, the story of an intelligent, bewildering ...

The early 1960s was a period of great excitement. Space travel had moved from the theoretical to actuality with President Kennedy’s promise to land on the moon by the end of the decade. Randall Ensley ...

Over 100 years after Martians landed on the outskirts of London in H G Wells’s famous novel War of the Worlds, London last week played host to an interplanetary gathering like no other at the World ...

BRIAN Aldiss has won critical acclaim across the globe for his science fiction writing. But the 84-year-old Oxford author has revealed a hidden talent – creating works of art. Over the past five ...

A strong-stomached artist has created this extraordinary series of other-worldly landscapes using nothing more than rotten fruit and veg. The bizarre pieces are the result of leaving everything from ...