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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

October 2014

  • Philip K Dick

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century?

  • A humanoid robot in Japan … since SF ideas influence the real world, is it important for those ideas

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    Science fiction's utopias are built out of wilful ignorance

September 2014

  • The Hunger Games

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    Young adult fiction is loved because it speaks to us all – unlike adult stories

    Damien Walter: Young adult fiction’s sci-fi metaphors are the best guide we have to the bleak and broken realities of adult life

August 2014

  • NASA Robonaut 2

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    Space Opera strikes up again for a new era

    Damien Walter: From Guardians of the Galaxy to Ancillary Justice, sci-fi is returning to alien worlds where distinctly earthly, political dramas play out
  • VARIOUS

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    Scared to death: has horror fiction run out of common fears to trade on?

    Whereas Victorian writers could rely on repressed sexuality to generate unease, today's horror and fantasy novels put sex on the front cover. But the best new examples of the genre still bring up the things we don't like to talk about, writes Damien Walter
  • Sognefjord Norwegian troll

    Books blog
    Trolls: now available on Amazon books

    Online abuse reminds us that while technology is upgraded, human qualities of jealousy and bitterness are not, writes Damien Walter

June 2014

  • Books in shadow

    Books blog
    How far can culture heroes' work stand apart from their lives?

  • Trekkies film Startrek episode in their kitchen

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    A digital renaissance for the science fiction short story

May 2014

  • 2014, GODZILLA

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    Science fiction's real-life war of the worlds

  • Star Wars novel Heir to the Empire Timothy Zahn

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    The shameful joys of the franchise novel … and why the force is with them

April 2014

  • Warning sign

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    The science of writing SF

  • World of Warcraft

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    Science fiction needs to reflect that the future is queer

March 2014

  • Man standing on binary code

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    The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer

    Damien Walter: The I-Ching predates binary code by as much as 5,000 years, and gives us reason to question our faith in digital technology

February 2014

  • Thinking robot

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    Are we already living in the technological singularity?

  • DIY

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    Self-publishing: is it killing the mainstream?

January 2014

  • Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in Iron Man.

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Forget Iron Man-child – let's fight the white maleness of geek culture

    Damien Walter: Fantasy has become a sandbox for immature masculinity. What kinds of stories could we tell if our writers tackled the hard truths of male identity and privilege?
  • Hobbit fans

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    Is it The Wheel of Time's turn for a Hugo award?

    Damien Walter: It is an inflated copy of JRR Tolkien, but Robert Jordan's multimillion-selling series is an achievement the judges just can't ignore
  • desert

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    Future worlds: the sci-fi you will be reading in 2014

    Science fiction is changing radically, as the voices of women and non-western perspectives come to the fore, writes Damien Walter

December 2013

  • David Foster Wallace

    Comfort reading
    The Tao Te Ching by Laozi: ancient wisdom for modern times

  • Game of Thrones Sean Bean

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    Which science fiction classic should be the next HBO box set?

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