As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to Alison Flood about mantis shrimp, the pleasures of sci-fi and why empathy is so ...

So, Lost‘s Damon Lindelof has signed on to rewrite the much-discussed Ridley Scott prequel to Alien – unless, of course, his script is so awesome that it becomes another movie altogether. Deadline ...