He recalls reenacting, with his cousin, the Wild West fiction of Capt.
"Planet of the Dead" was a departure from Roberts' usual stories Roberts had previously only written pseudo-historical stories and instead consisted of wild science fiction elements from his literary career and teenage imagination.
And yes, the books on the longlist show that non-fiction is certainly stranger and wilder than fiction".
You could argue that similarly rough treatment has been handed out to the show's fans, who have been whiplashed among universes and timelines as the producers have completely recalibrated their wild science-fiction-mystery narrative from season to season.
From artist Marion Coutts's searingly honest account of her husband's death from a brain tumour to Helen Macdonald's story of how she tamed a goshawk after her father died, memoirs dominate the longlist for the Samuel Johnson prize this year, in a line-up which the acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin said shows "that non-fiction is certainly stranger and wilder than fiction".
In effect, Varda turns the blend of fantasy and realism into a wild science-fiction-plus-neo-realist parody of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"—a target that is all the more apt because "Les Créatures" is a French-Swedish co-production and one of the townspeople is played by Eva Dahlbeck, a frequent Bergman collaborator.
What starts off, with reckless ambiguity, as a sour indulgence in stereotypes of both the right and the left — though more of the right, with its lampooning of hip-hop culture and of moral decline — morphs into a wild science-fiction comedy, complete with simple but spectacular special effects.
He turns 40 on the 21st of this month, and can now add his role as the funder of the new €250,000 (£216,000) "test-tube burger" to a host of other wild science-fiction ideas that are turning into fact - including investing in asteroid mining, personal genome analysis and electric cars.
The collection of short stories explores artificial intelligence, then the wildest science fiction.
"The Constant" is a wild science-fiction story with a warm, beating heart.
