It is one thing to see a tentacled-eyeball alien that consists of even more eyeballs launch out of a cat’s skull, but it is much worse to listen to. When you are squeamish (as I am), people often tell ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...