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Can we go there?

Rocky surface in the foreground; gallery in the background with a sci-fi character blurred in the centre.

Distance, cost, technology, the health hazards of a strange new world.

Star Wars

Books on a shelf.
A spaceship model in a case

Iain M. Banks

Renowned science-fiction writer Iain M. Banks created sketches to explore ideas for his novels featuring other worlds and inter-planetary travel. Come see them in the exhibition.

FROM THE EXHIBITION

From Ken MacLeod’s Engines of Light Trilogy to Doctor Who and Star Wars,
sci-fi goes where science might never be able to get to. Or does it?

Drawings and text in a case
Close-up of sci-fi character model with gallery in the background
Mars rocks in a case in the foreground, a model of a sci-fi character in the background
Model of a mars rover
Open book with coloured sci-fi illustration
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