Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a specialist in science fiction and the Gothic. His many books include The Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J. G. Ballard (1997) and Science Fiction: A Cultural History (2005). He has also edited several of the Oxford World's Classics, including H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (2017), in addition to writing for The Guardian and appearing on Radio 4.