Gothic, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Experimental SFF

Aims: Exploring new ways, through form and genre, to push speculative boundaries with writing 

Significance: expands upon and challenges genre and formal conventions, addresses the tensions between analogue and digital media in creating contemporary SFF. 

Team:Brian Baker, Ines G. Labarta, Oliver Langmead, Kwasu Tembo

Key publications: 

Published: 

2024: The Three Lives of St Ciaran, an experimental spec fiction novel. Ines G. Labarta 

2024: Calypso, a science-fiction verse-novel exploring post-human experiences and geoengineering by Oliver K. Langmead, Titan Books 2024

2022: Argo-0, (Steel Incisors, 2022)visual treatment of H.G. Wells’s short story ‘The Chronic Argonauts’. Brian Baker 

2023: An Invention (Trickhouse Press, 2023), visual treatment of H.G. Wells’s novel The Time Machine. Brian Baker. 