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Damien Walter

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Damien G Walter is a writer of weird and speculative fiction. His stories have appeared in many odd and wonderful publications including BBC Radio. He is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop at UC San Diego

February 2017

  • Iain Banks.

    Books blog
    30 years of Culture: what are the top five Iain M Banks novels?

    These gritty space operas combine extravagant, high-tech invention with real human drama. Thirty years after they began appearing, here are some of the best

November 2016

  • Amy Adams in Arrival

    Books blog
    Ted Chiang, the science fiction genius behind Arrival

    The award-winning writer’s complex, thoughtful and futuristic stories should prove fertile ground for film-makers now Hollywood has discovered him

August 2016

  • A bit iffy … detail from the cover art for Chuck Tingle’s Space Raptor Butt Invasion

    Books blog
    Hugo awards: reading the Sad Puppies' pets

  • a still from Orson Welles’s film version of The Trial (1962).

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Bureaumancy: a genre for fantastic tales of the deeply ordinary

July 2016

  • a still from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Big Dumb Objects: science fiction's most mysterious MacGuffins

    From 2001 to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, these awesome structures loom large over the genre, loaded with inscrutable significance

June 2016

  • Complex pictures .. A Royal Astronomical Society map of the outer solar system. At the centre of the map is the sun, and close to it the tiny orbits of the terrestrial planets.

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    Systems fiction: a novel way to think about the present

  • The world turned turned upside down ... a still from the movie Inception.

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    How sci-fi simulates simulated reality

May 2016

  • Alternative hero ... Neil Gaiman

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Geek critique: Neil Gaiman and Kameron Hurley pick apart pop culture

  • three silver trophies.

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Have the Locus awards been hit with 'myopic sexism'?

April 2016

  • Breakthrough Starshot

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Reaching for the stars: a brief history of sci-fi space travel

  • ‘Damo, Frank Miller’s turned Batman into a fascist’.

    Damien Walter's weird things
    double quotation markFrank Miller's fascist Dark Knight is a very modern archetype

    Damien Walter

March 2016

  • Welcome to the machine … a still from The Matrix

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    When AI rules the world: what SF novels tell us about our future overlords

  • Transmetropolitan Vol 1 cover

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Transmetropolitan: the 90s comic that's bang up-to-date on Donald Trump

February 2016

  • stan lee

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    Stan Lee: the greatest storyteller in history?

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    Notes & Theories
    Science and superheroes: how close are we to creating real superpowers?

January 2016

  • AXA20J Child s small plastic chair on lawn

    Damien Walter's weird things
    The ominous ordinary: horror writers finding scares in the everyday

    Some of the very best work in this genre comes from writers who embed their terrors into strikingly everyday settings
  • Albert Einstein

    Damien Walter's weird things
    It's about time: how sci-fi has described Einstein's universe

    A century after the publication of the general theory of relativity, sci-fi is still grappling with its implications, and still trying to explain it to the rest of us
  • starships from the Star Wars film series on display at the MAK museum in Vienna.

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    Science fiction and fantasy look ahead to a diverse 2016

    After years of toil below the mainstream radar, a more inclusive generation of writers is set for crossover success

December 2015

  • C3-P0 (Anthony Daniels), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) stand against a blue sky, looking into the distance in a desert.

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    Wookie books: the science fiction that inspired George Lucas's Star Wars

    Star Wars made science fiction a cultural phenomenon, but the film’s origins lie in other texts, and ancient myths conceived a long time ago, in civilisations far, far away

November 2015

  • Exterior of Harrods department store

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    Literature vs genre is a battle where both sides lose

    Literary fiction is an artificial luxury brand but it doesn’t sell. So nobody benefits by fencing it off from more popular writing
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