In the beginning was the Supercomputer, and the words came out of the Supercomputer, and the words were all right. We are in a lecture hall, where Michael (Mike Rudden) holds forth about his beloved Supercomputer, which can, he says, predict the future. Predict the future! The implications are a little creepy: if the future […]

D Mitchell’s Flight of the Xenophobe encases 2013 in amber to examine the issues of race and gentrification. Xenophobia comes from Greek and means a strong fear of what is foreign, so who, Flight asks, is the xenophobe?