Thankfully avoiding the widespread shutdowns of events around the globe (including the Tribeca Film Festival that has been postponed), the PKD Film Festival completed another successful year and has announced winners for its 8th annual awards. The festival featured a lineup of screenings, premieres, panels, virtual reality demonstrations and the launch of a new screenplay… Continue Reading
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American Quartet from Filmelodic: Digital Emotions, Classical Music and Futurist Hope
In a recent post on the eighth annual Philip K Dick Film Festival, we announced a wide range of filmmakers and projects that will be shown at the festival. Many of these are premiering in public for the first time, which is the case for American Quartet from Filmelodic. I was fortunate enough to receive… Continue Reading
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[Review] Moving to Mars at the Design Museum
The colonisation of Mars is on the horizon. Although we might not meet the ambitious timelines put forward by a private company such as SpaceX (a million people on Mars by 2050), and the headline-grabbing PR effort that was Mars One went quietly bankrupt last year, there are still a number of more measured government-backed… Continue Reading
The Big Short Reminder: Victims of the Financial Crisis
The Big Short is a perfectly timed reminder that, while the worst of this particular crisis may have passed, we have barely begun to help those who suffered the most. Nor have we yet done enough to create a financial system that won’t lead us down such a path again in the future.… Continue Reading
When Winter Calls on sale until 11 January!
To celebrate crossing 5,000 followers on Twitter, I’ve put the Kindle version of When Winter Calls on sale until Monday 11th January at just 0.99c (or pence, depending on your region). We’ve already had a great response to the sale so far, with the book cracking into the top 30 on the Cyberpunk charts –… Continue Reading
Debut Novel from the Author of Future Conscience!
When Winter Calls is the debut novel from the author of Future Conscience, a science fiction thriller that explores the boundaries of our personal and collective identities in an ever-changing world.… Continue Reading