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Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett is a university lecturer based in Cambridge. His short stories have appeared in
Interzone
and
Asimov’s
, and he is the author of
Dark Eden
and the short-story collection
the Turing Test
.
Phil Whitehouse / Flickr
The Underrated, Universal Appeal of Science Fiction
Why do so many readers still look down on the genre of Orwell and Atwood?
Chris Beckett
April 15, 2014