Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle was the first of a genre, and still one of the most unassuming and best; the conditional history book, the speculative historical fiction. Dick’s question was “what if the Germans and Japanese had won the war?” and he played it out with the Japanese and Germans…

Lawks. Fantastic short films from Zed include the indescribable glory of this “Heap of Trouble”.

(From Rossignol). Lumme, that’s amazing. Either someone’s spent hours making thousands of remote controlled special effects, or bio-organic lifeforms are with us. I sincerely hope it’s the latter. Can we hurry up and live in the future now? Dammit, I want scientists meddling with our genetic code, I want implants and cyborg elements, I want…

Voigt-Kampf Industries MODEL VK2016v1.5 Neat-o. (Not Netto). A working Voight-Kampff tester. Well, working in that it makes the motions, shows your eye on the screen, the bellow work and so on. It still can’t tell the difference between replicants and humans as there are no humans. I mean, replicants. Course I mean replicants, ho and…

Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’ – Britain – Times Online: “The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, reports: “Many Americans agree that their churchgoing nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that stands as an impressive example for an increasingly…