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Uk's first sci-fi and fantasy centre opens in Cambridge

Una McCormack (right) is a leading science fiction writer. Credit: ITV News Anglia

The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy has been officially launched in Cambridge.

It's the first university-based research group of its kind in the UK.

The Centre, which will connect the areas of writing and publishing with literary criticism, will hold a series of events and conferences designed to bring together academics, authors, editors, and members of the book publishing industry.

We're living in a very uncertain time, and I think science fiction and fantasy offer us tools to think about the world.

So that's what the centre is doing. It's bringing people with those shared interests together to work on these texts, discuss ideas and in my case, to write science fiction novels.

– Una McCormack, Science fiction writer