When it comes to people getting superpowers, we are habitually used to two key constants: Looks like, rather happily it should be added, that no one sent the memo to Extraordinary, which explores a world in which superpowers have magically been dispensed to everyone and they are so much a Continue Reading
Book review: Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Humanity has, in many ways, got where it’s got because it’s refused to simply take the universe on the terms obviously presented to it. No matter what the issue is or the challenge to be resolved, we have looked all kinds of supposedly set-in-stone realities of the Continue Reading