Welcome to the Future
October 20, 2015
Dr Liz Evans from our Department of Culture, Film and Media introduces Back to the Future Day. Those of you who haven’t been patiently waiting for today for the last 26 years may not realise that we’ve officially reached ‘The Future’. 21st October 2015 is Back to the Future Day, the day that Marty McFly …
Back to the Future and a Philosophical can-can
In honour of Back to the Future Day tomorrow, Jonathan Tallant from our Department of Philosophy considers a key conundrum of Marty McFly’s adventures in time. I suspect that you know the story. Our hero, Marty McFly, is sent to the 1950s via the scientific shenanigans of his good friend Doc Brown. Whilst in the …
Nina Allan on clocks, watches and time travel
October 19, 2015
British Science-fiction author Nina Allan explains the inspiration behind her award-winning collection of short stories, ‘The Silver Wind’. ‘The Silver Wind’ consists of six interlinked stories. All are on the theme of time travel, or travelling through time. Although each of these separate ‘chapters’ can be read as a standalone story, I have always thought …
