“I don’t want to go in the cart,” cries the body, “I think I might go for a walk.”
It appears we can relax. Ridley Scott was wrong. Paul Howlett in today’s Guardian says science fiction cinemay still has a future. Hurrah!

 Thank fuck for this. Stephen Pinker is a wise, wise, wanker.

 This, though, seems incredible. A two second improvement in reaction time seems too good to be true - surely, even at my advanced age, my reaction time in twitch games is less than two seconds?

And thank god for the good folk at Kudos who, with Spooks and Life on Mars, are making the most stylish genre drama on TV (Spooks is sf, damn it, you know it is) - whose new production sounds as though it could either be a total mess or a really interesting take on a cross-time drama. I have no clue how this might work - each episode will apparently be set in a different time period - but given the producer’s track record I’m really keen to see what they do.