Loaded with cameos of people associated with the movie, all grouped around the figure of Philip K. Dick....

Philip K Dick's last wife has reworked the novel the legendary science fiction author was working on when he died in 1982. Tessa Dick, who described her self-publication of The Owl in Daylight as a tribute to her former husband, was Dick's fifth and final wife, marrying him in 1973. She told online ...

Gamers around the world are reeling from the news that much-decorated British fantasy author Graham Joyce has been hired to write a storyline for classic shoot-em-up video game Doom. Joyce, who has won the British Fantasy award four times for his dark fantasy novels, will be tackling the fourth inst...

Just two years after producing Starship Troopers, a book beloved of right wing militarists everywhere, Robert Heinlein came up with Stranger in a Strange Land, in which guns are seen as "a great wrongness", personal and sexual liberation a "goodness", monotheistic religion no better than a carnival ...

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth, Datlow has gathered 19 original stories from contemporary writers. Her introduction states that she didn't want Poe pastiches but stories inspired by his work. This has resulted in several of the best pieces being modern-day takes on the...

Jack works for queen and country, eradicating, by means of his magical powers and brute force, those deemed enemies of the state. In the second novel of the series he goes undercover and infiltrates the organisation of a bunch of Nazi-loving psychopaths. With the aid of occult practices they plan to...

Great stories often end badly, but for fans of CS Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) the "last battle" turns out nastier than most. It begins, you may remember, with Shift the evil ape and Puzzle the depressing donkey; it continues with the children, flung to death in a train crash, apart ...

Soccer is major passion in most of the world, at least among people interested in sports. Here we have Werner, German soccer fan, who drops a ball into the midst of his local street fair, then gives a play by......

And speaking of animated objects, life can be hard when you're a pencil....