Since Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece debuted in 1968, fictional stories of faulty or malevolent AI are legion. What have recent advances taught us and what might the future hold?
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Tim Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, pushes the author’s classic themes to the extreme.
Literary fiction is robust enough to withstand the challenges the 21st century throws at it.
Treatment for nervous exhaustion in the Victorian era could literally drive you mad.
Ursula le Guin gave us an anarchist society on another world; we brought it back to Earth.
Science fiction has a more important job to do – it allows us to see ourselves in a new light.
Reading something that sows doubt about a widely agreed-upon fact – even the election of George Washington as president – can have a profound effect.
The limited and skewed portrayal of autism means it is often
misrepresented rather than represented in fiction.
Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person short story in the New Yorker about the perils of dating in the digital world is flawed – and brilliant as a result.
Stories that create connection, comfort and security aren’t just perfect holiday reading. They also provide inspiration - a vision of how life should be.
A new study suggests skilled storytellers may have greater reproductive success than others.
A newly published batch of Ernest Hemingway’s letters could change the way we think about the author’s influences, relationships with other writers and views on race.
Why do so many books by non-white authors find themselves in ‘global literature’?
English author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. For some weeks now, the bookies have been offering odds on the likely winner. Kenya’s Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was front runner earlier…
Autumn is the first novel to tackle the UK’s impending departure from the EU.
This year three of his stories are being adapted for viewers.
Far from grasping at Cold War certainties, Le Carré’s Smiley embraces the changing role of the British spy.
Stephen King is the undisputed master of horror but does he get the respect he deserves as a ‘real’ writer?
Josephine Wilson has won the 2017 Miles Franklin award for her novel Extinctions. Judging panel chair Richard Neville stated Wilson’s novel, “explores ageing, adoption, grief and remorse, empathy and self-centredness…
He’s back! Any mention of the killer robots debate brings images of the Terminator film. But science fiction can be a useful tool to get people interested in the real issues in science.
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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IT Service Desk Coordinator, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer — Writing, Editing, Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
