Tue Sorensen

Associate Editor

Tue hails from Denmark and has studied biology and English (hereunder English and American literature and several courses on Shakespeare), and is currently studying history at Copenhagen University. He has a wide range of interests and a nigh-pathological drive to connect them all into a single whole. One of his earliest passions was science fiction, and he is active in, and ex-president of, a Copenhagen-based society for the exploring of the fantastic genres – SF, superheroes, fantasy and supernatural horror – in all media. Since 2003 they have been publishing a quarterly magazine and arranging, among other things, an annual convention: Fantasticon – where Tue on rare occasions can be spotted wearing a Star Trek uniform.

Tue enthusiastically reviews films (and the occasional book, comic book, or play) on several websites in both Danish and English, including, but not limited to, Shakespeare adaptations. He owns practically every Shakespeare-related DVD yet released, and swears by the Arden editions of Shakespeare’s works. He discovered Shakespeare in earnest in 1999, and visited Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare’s Globe in London in 2007 for the first but not the last time.

Tue is a manic collector whose shelves are swelling with not only science fiction and classic literature, but a generous assortment of books on popular science (physics and evolution especially), history, mythology, music, Shakespeare scholarship, and everything in between. He loves both the extremes of “low” pop culture and “high” fine culture, claiming that the two are not truly dissimilar. Tue has an undying thirst for knowledge and is determined to somehow, someway, make a positive difference in the world.

Tue is slowly working on several non-fiction books on everything from Shakespeare to neurology and cosmology, and believes that classic literature and art in general – and Shakespeare in particular – can inform science in ways hitherto undreamed of. He also has a burning desire to launch an apparatus of literary criticism focusing on allegorical representations of reason, emotion, history and other crucial features of the human condition, of which Shakespeare has more to say than any other person who ever lived. Tue insists that Shakespeare’s works contain mysteries waiting to be unlocked by a posterity that is only slowly catching up with the supreme intelligence of the Bard’s astonishing beauty and truth.