Tom Shippey - profile from The Wall Street Journal. News, articles, biography and photos.

Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' almost fell apart thanks to studio meddling. But now, with a new Criterion release, it's considered ...

The 2000 animated film Titan A.E. remains one of the most undderrated sci-fi films around, and deserves a resurgence.

But fictional portraits of AI have pretty much never looked like the actual present of AI. All those killer Terminators, rebellious Westworld robots, and nuke-hijacking supercomputers have nothing to ...

Most movies set in the future get things terribly wrong. But sometimes, they hit the nail on the head with eery accuracy.

An Fear Ciúin lives and works in the Irish midlands. He has a keen interest in medieval and early modern history. He’s ...

In his first published work of fiction, the British writer and futurist Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) shot to literary ...

Brazil, The Hunger Games, and A Clockwork Orange are all among the best and most provocative dystopian movies you need to ...

Pertinent questions are asked: what does the world look like after the veil of civilisation has lifted? What continues to matter, and what does not?

Whether you want to make sense of reality or escape it — through climate fiction, searing memoirs, and tight thrillers.