but it’s not often that a musical icon steeped in science fiction dies days before I write Geek Speak. I’m talking, of course, about David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust himself, a man whose first hit ...

It’s hard to miss this branch of sci-fi at work in Bowie’s 1972 opus, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The album, Bowie’s big break into the top pop charts ...