Over in the Guardian's Friday review today, DJ Taylor examines why we're still so interested in HG Wells' War of the Worlds.
As an adjunct, Margaret Atwood gives her thoughts on why we need science fiction.
We want wisdom. We want hope. We want to be good. Therefore we sometimes tell ourselves warning stories that deal with the darker side of some of our other wants. As William Blake noted long ago, the human imagination drives the world.
