Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

LEFT: Burroughs in 1963: ‘particularly spectral and menacing: a fitting mug shot for a literary outlaw’ (image via Reality Studio). RIGHT: Moorcock, from around the same era (image via Moorcock’s Miscellany). Over at Reality Studio, there’s an excellent interview with Michael...

Further to Mike Moorcock, Frendz and Hawkwind all turning up in Mike Bonsall’s brilliant excavation of Ballard’s neural motorway, and then the passing away of Jim Cawthorn, let’s return to John Coulthart. John, who has designed a few Hawkwind record covers in his time, has unearthe...

Illustrations by Mike Saenz for two Ballard stories in Semiotext(e) SF: ‘Jane Fonda’s Augmentation Mammoplasty’ and ‘Report on an Unidentified Space Station’. Rudy Rucker’s wonderful reminiscences about the early days of cyberpunk (’it felt like being an early Beat̵...

2008 has been a banner year for British science fiction and fantasy author Michael Moorcock: the Times Online named him as one of the 50 greatest British writers after 1945, a list that includes such luminaries as J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, Ian Fleming, Iris Murdoch and Kingsley Amis...

All you need to know about the steampunk subgenre of science fiction is right there on the back cover of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s STEAMPUNK anthology: “Steampunk is Victorian elegance and modern technology.” This spirit of creative anachronism is celebrated in a baker’s doze...

Further to yesterday’s post on Lord Horror, I urge you to follow it up with a reading of this interview with Britton and Butterworth over at Reality Studio. It’s about the Savoy duo’s meeting with Burroughs in 1979 and is in two parts, the first conducted by Sarajane Inkster in 199...

‘An Interview with J. G. Ballard’ (1982) by Werner Fuchs and Joachim Körber. Translation by Dan O’Hara. JGB in 1985: photo by Bleddyn Butcher. The following interview was conducted in Shepperton at some point during the spring of 1982, shortly before the publication of Myths of th...