Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
“There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the Moon.” This is how the opening line on the movie’s website, a American-Canadian SF/ horror written by Brian Miller and directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego. I have briefly mentioned this movie when…
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I was recently discussing with some friends about our favourite horror novels and more precisely which specific kind of horror each one of us preferred (this article can be a good introduction to the debate). I had no troubles selecting my…
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In SF fandom Dan Simmons is especially known for the Hyperion Cantos series, and with a reason: those books, especially the first two – Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion – are truly exceptional. But Dan Simmons is an extremely versatile writer,…
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If jungles, unspeakable monstrosities and places in the middle of nowhere are regular components of your nightmares, search no longer: this is the horror book you want to read. And even if they’re not, like in my case, you can…
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Parasite (2013) by Mira Grant/ Seanan McGuire is an interesting blend of techno-thriller, horror and SF. It features a near-future humanity made virtually disease-free by a gentle, genetically engineered parasite living symbiotically with its human hosts. It’s easy to figure…
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Written in 1983 and adapted into a movie in 1989, Pet Sematary is by any standard one of the more frightening books I ever put my hands on. I recently had a go at it again, and albeit I knew the story by heart for…
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I read this novel (to be precise, and oddly enough, in its French edition) long time ago. I don’t remember what I thought at that time, but the book I remembered all right. And after so many years, being now in…
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I am not a great fan of supernatural per se, I have to say, and my favourite horror stories have generally a scientific explanation for what happens, even when they scare me silly. What I enjoy in ghost stories, on the…
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In 1967, Harlan Ellison put together a short-story anthology titled Dangerous Visions. Mildly put, this collection made history and “almost single-handedly [it] changed the way readers thought about science fiction.” What all the fuss was about? First of all, the quality…
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Vampires, we know, are a popular brand at least since John Polidori’s Lord Ruthven, allegedly inspired by Lord Byron during a fateful night at Villa Diodati I have already talked about. Joined a few decades later by a female vampire – Le Fanu’s Carmilla –…
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