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Mon 05 May 2010The future is now
WITH FILMS such as Avatar, Star Trekand Iron Man 2all doing well at the box office, and shows such as Doctor Who, Life On Mars, Battlestar Galacticaand Lostattracting respectable audiences on TV and DVD, there’s no question that the general public has an appetite for visual science fiction and fantasy. Printed science fiction and fantasy, on the other hand, has traditionally been less fortunate. For years, it has had to struggle hard to transcend its pulp roots and be taken seriously as a genre of literature.
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