Stepping off the elevator platform, I can’t help but stop to take in the view of the city. Around us, artificial trees stretch up so . . .
The Botanist of Sky City Celeste
Lyndsey Croal
We left Earth today.
My ma drove me up to Sutherland Spaceport herself, and I left Edinburgh behind.
A Certain Reverence
L.R. Lam
She looked round the room and its sham antique oak, all solemn lines of fiddley curlicues. A great sloped mirror showed herself. Being still very . . .
Gay Hunter (extract)
James Leslie Mitchell (known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon)
Thomas Erskine is likely to be the first Scot to have written a science fiction novel
Gay Hunter is a delightful surprise from a well-known Scottish author – someone who is never first associated with science fiction.
Despite numerous accomplishments in his lifetime – as a publisher, historian, politician and statesman – John Buchan is chiefly remembered now as the author of . . .
John Buchan and Space
Paul F Cockburn
Whit is this race, tae colonise every inch o place?
Tae conteena tae mak a case, that tae diskiver a new race
or . . .Dust hazes sun, like an eclipse. The dancers come, hips angular, double copper castanet click, singing the beasts from the shadows.
Ecstatic / Who Goes There?
Jane McKie
He beams himself up
town to where it’s busiest.
The people of this planet like to congregate
in places of religious . . .Captain Kirk visits Edinburgh in August
Rachel Plummer
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