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Philip K. Dick's robotic head

: 14 January 2011; John Howell

Philip K. Dick has been resurrected from the dead as a talking robot head by Hanson Robotics. Below is the video to prove it. What makes this post even more bizarre is that this is the second Philip K. Dick robotic head they've built. Philip K. Dick ...

Science fiction writer J.G. Ballard dies, aged 78

: 20 April 2009; John Howell

J.G. Ballard, most famous for the novels Crash and Empire of the Sun, has died aged 78 after a long illness. According to the BBC, his agent Margaret Hanbury said the author had been ill "for several years" and died on Sunday morning. Empire of the ...

John Wyndham: The invisible man of science fiction

: 23 September 2008; John Howell

I’ve long been a big fan of the British author John Wyndham, most famous for The Day of the Triffids (1951), a tale of aggressive plants that roam the Earth after almost everyone has been struck blind by what appears to be a botched military ...

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90

: 18 March 2008; John Howell

Arthur C. Clarke, author of over 100 fiction and non-fiction books, has died at age 90. Regarded as one of science fiction's leading lights, Clarke is perhaps best known for the ground breaking 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley ...

China Mieville - no alien visitors just yet!

: 23 April 2007; Gerard Wood

China Mieville has written some of the most profound and imaginative dark fantasy since Mervyn Peake and, perhaps more successfully than anyone writing in (or out) of genre, has captured the sheer size and multi-layered complexity of the Big City ...

Sirens of Titan author dies

: 21 April 2007; John Howell

American writer Kurt Vonnegut has died aged 84. Vonnegut is best know for his science fiction classics Slaughterhouse 5, The Sirens of Titan, and Player Piano. His unconventional style and savage wit appealed to many. He started writing after ...