New series of Handmaid's Tale: tralier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dre0wQmLGe8

Huxley vs Orwell: Dystopia dressed as Utopia

Interesting article and radio programme suggests that Brave New World by Aldous Huxley was a more accurate vision of a dystopian future because it realised that we would willingly embrace our own enslavement - as it would come with mind-altering drugs and sexual 'freedom'.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4TQhTRDcHw1V0YhbtL600BJ/sex-drugs-and-aldous-huxley?intc_type=singletheme&intc_location=avs&intc_campaign=dangerousvisions&intc_linkname=article_huxley_contentcard2

Atwood on 'Why we need science fiction'

Pre-mock gold dust. Thanks Ms Robinson...


http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/17/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.margaretatwood

Atwood talks about Handmaid's Tale

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r76k2

Creepy? Or brilliant?

How might an article like this inform how you write about the modern context in which a book like Frankenstein is received (AO1)?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12133410/British-scientists-granted-permission-to-genetically-modify-human-embryos.html

Most threats to humans come from science and technology

According to Stephen Hawkings... http://gu.com/p/4gv64?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The best sci-fi site in the world?

http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/

Literary Science fiction...

The most literary science fiction novels? Then maybe Frankenstein should be on here!
https://litreactor.com/columns/17-of-the-most-literary-science-fiction-novels


Defining science fiction:
http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/SF-Defined.htm


Also: in defence of science fiction:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/18/genre-debate-science-fiction-speculative-literary