Tag Archives: science fiction

I am fascinated by, and frightened by, the idea of alien contact.

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Brendan

In the late 1980s, someone gave my dad a copy of Whitley Streiber’s Communion, a novel about an alien abduction. The front cover featured a head and shoulders portrait of a being which, today, is commonly called a ‘grey’: an … Continue reading →

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Anger and Protest in Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Brendan

Shortly after the destruction of his house his planet to make way for an interstellar bypass (the planet happened to be Earth, by the way), Arthur Dent, Earthling, accidentally joins a mission to find a mythical planet called Magrathea, a … Continue reading →

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Review: Sense8 Will Change Television

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Brendan

When I was a drama major at the UofG, we sometimes spoke of “theatre value”: the extent to which the story being told had to be told through theatre, and could not be told as effectively, as successfully, in another … Continue reading →

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