science fiction

Throwaway Star Wars Moments: The Rise of Skywalker One Year Later

Taking another look at the final entry of the Skywalker Saga with the assistance of the novelisation, art of book and visual encyclopedia

The Art of Raving: Junior Tomlin Interview

Junior Tomlin discusses his Velocity Press monograph and how science fiction, surrealism and dub shaped his rave flyers and record covers

A Certain Amount of Risk: The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars

Stewart Gardiner leans away from Ballardian nightmares and into a galaxy far, far away with a look at Landry Walker’s Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars

Tom McDowell (Dream Division): Interplanetary Hotel Radio Mixtape

To tie-in with his new Dream Division LP for Polytechnic Youth, Tom McDowell delivers a mixtape of deep dark interstellar grooves

Listening Center: Time Out of Joint Mixtape

Listening Center channels Philip K Dick, back roads and bus shelters with the Time Out of Joint (or, Best Bargains in Multiverse Incisions) mixtape

Automatic Invention: Alexander Tucker Interview

Alexander Tucker talks to Stewart Gardiner about Alan Moore’s Providence, panspermia and multi-dimensional imagery in Guild of the Asbestos Weaver

Tomorrow Syndicate – Citizen Input (Polytechnic Youth)

Tomorrow Syndicate’s Citizen Input is a compact set of expansive, electronically-infused and psychedelically-charged, synthy and shoegazey kosmische cuts

Polypores – Flora (Castles In Space)

Stephen James Buckley continues the transmogrification of Polypores, with arguably his most alluring and hypnotic album to date

Points Unguessed and Unimaginable: Kristen Alvanson’s XYZT

Kristen Alvanson’s intoxicating work of theory-fiction for the K-Pulp series delivers a fiction virus into reality via an experimental teleportation system

Time Matters: Juno Dawson’s The Good Doctor

The first novel for the Thirteenth Doctor riffs on how a single event can, if exploited by those in pursuit of power, turn history on its head