Backwater Archives

Brianna Bullen   She logged into her domain, an archive threatening to extinguish itself under its own over-stimulated, under-filtered information swarms. Pottering around for a minute, hyperlink diving, she quickly restrained herself and closed the browser. There was a subtle art to hyperlink diving: an arc into its deep data, not a plonk. A chosen…

Follicle

CB Harvey                 You’re absolutely sure? The whole beard? Such a shame. You just don’t see ‘em like this anymore. But, you know. You’re the boss. Snip snip. Snip snip. Honestly, don’t feel you need to talk. Just stare impassively into the mirror, thinking your private thoughts. That’s…

Science Fiction, Memory and Trauma

Roger Luckhurst   Science fiction has long been interested in the possibilities of technological developments that might manipulate memory. According to historians of shifting patterns of memory like Eric Hobsbawm or Pierre Nora, memory in the West was increasingly located as the core of personal, collective and national identities through the nineteenth century and beyond.…