The Dark Mountain Project is a creative project, a writers' movement that has become something far more important. If you claim to be an environmentalist, this unique initiative may challenge your way of thinking, because it rejects much of what the green movement has become.

Many of...

If I have learned one thing in my few years as a writer it is that a worrying number of those who work in publishing enjoy single malt whisky.

My own utterly unempirical research has concluded that the number is so high that it seems likely that there is...

Science fiction and fantasy is a genre that effectively shows the difference between ourselves and the Other. From the alien slums in District 9 to the critique of colonialism within an HG Wells novel, the genre's disregard for reality allows cultural thought experiments to run wild. This is particularly noticeable...