Archive - Stranger Worlds

Pickwickian Democracy

Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and the argument over which kind of dystopia was rushing towards us out of the future

Jul 1 •

June 2025

July on Stranger Worlds

Opening new paths for governance

Jun 30 •

1961: Elric of Melniboné

The influence and mythology of Michael Moorcock's infamous antihero and his swinging sixties mirror image

Jun 24 •

1870: Captain Nemo

Jules Verne brings the antihero out of civilisation - and gives him his own domain beneath the waves!

Jun 17 •

Milton's Paradise Lost provides a step on the path towards the antihero, and a sobering contrast to our present times

Jun 10 •

2100BC: Gilgamesh

Is the first action hero also the first antihero...? The transformation of Uruk's tyrant and the flaws of the legendary Greek heroes reveal a time…

Jun 3 •

June on Stranger Worlds

Meet the Antiheroes

Jun 1 •

May 2025

My final exchange with Mary Midgley and the solution to the problem of free will

May 27 •

Knowledge Requires Freedom

What connects the X-men's Cerebro and Enlightenment firebrand Johann Gottlieb Fichte? Other minds!

May 20 •

Freedom is Necessity

Upending the lazy dogmas of free will with the bad boy of Scottish philosophy, David Hume

May 13 •

Bread and Thoughts

Does the question of free will actually matter? Moorcock's challenge to H.G. Wells provides a clue

May 6 •

May on Stranger Worlds

Free Will and Science Fiction

May 1 •

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