Quizmaster Nick Setchfield, Editor At Large

A maths formula, the Spanish Armada and Madonna all take centre stage this month

Buck Up Your Ideas

Composite figment of imaginations The writer credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey, and often regarded as one of the most important authors of all time, is to my mind the most overrated hi

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

I could justifiably claim this year to have been a professional actor for 70 years. In 1956, when I was just 13, I was recruited to play the imaginary son of Eleanor Summerfield, the star of a Granada