My book, Different Engines: : How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science, written with Neil Hook, has recently been published by MacMillan Science. It's the first popular science book to explore the relationship between science and science fiction. Read more about Different Engines in Books.

Upcoming events:

Tuesday 1 - Friday 4 July, ASB3: The Living Universe, the Third Conference of the Astrobiology Society of Britain, The Atrium, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff

Maybe you'd like to listen in on these podcasts?  They're on the Top 10 Mad Doctors of Cinema from the contemporary inventory of terrors from film and fiction.  The podcasts feature the following mad doctors: Faustus, Frankenstein, Jekyll, Moreau, Caligari, Rotwang, Lector and Strangelove.