Joining the stunning fictions of Olja Savičević, Selvedin Avdić and Téa Obreht comes a debut novel by the young American-Croatian Sara Nović.
Like the first trailer, this teaser for the Denis Villeneuve directed flick looks pretty cool, which is important for a sequel to the most visually stunning science-fiction film ever made.
But he proves here he can sit down alone and bang out a stunning, heart-stopping fiction.
James Cameron has described Ghost in the Shell as "a stunning work of speculative fiction. . . the first to reach a level of literary excellence".
As ever, Barker disentangles questions of responsibility and guilt, class and personal loyalty, and the role of art in wartime to produce a stunning work of historical fiction.
It would only be in 1888, when Prus was forty, that he would write his first historical fiction, the stunning short story, "A Legend of Old Egypt".
2049 is a stunning work of science fiction, but fans of Ryan Gosling the actor as opposed to Ryan Gosling the superstar may leave the film wondering what happened to the man who, once upon a time, would gain 60 pounds just to play a part he ultimately didn't even get.
Bosch's Adoration of the Magi (the National is exhibiting a studio copy of the Prado original) has a stunning background of science-fiction architecture: the round skyscrapers, tubular towers and pyramid-spires of Bosch's Bethlehem look like they came off the cover of a 1970sAsimov paperback - or failing that, out of Stalin's Moscow.
Pohl regards Galaxy as the place where "the stunning new kinds of science fiction... flowered, and changed everything in science fiction".
"Their rivalry on and off the track was far more stunning and entertaining than any fiction we could have come up with," says Hemsworth.
