The SFcrowsnest archive
I often mention my practical application of General Semantics. Picking out books to recommend on the subject is a lot harder, mostly because…
If the titular character, Professor Quanderhorn, immediately suggests Bernard Quatermass, you’d not be far off the inspiration for the BBC Radio 4 comedy…
Picking up this early ‘Back Issue’ should be obvious when it as Mary-Jane Watson on the cover. Let’s pick out some highlights. The…
A little exercise with many non-fiction books is if they reference another period book is to see if a copy is out there,…
Another of the books about Science Fiction I pulled last year is ‘Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History Of Science Fiction’ by James Gunn…
Of the four graphic novels based on Cixin Liu’s stories that I’ve read so far, ‘YuanYuan’s Bubbles’ is the first one where I…
Arlyn Albainal was very surprised to be named executor of his cousin Xandra’s will. Arlyn hadn’t been Xandra for years and surely would…
‘Swords & Steam: Short Stories’ is another big collection from Flame Tree Publishing that mixes old and new stories, this time in the…
Oddly, this is my first time in watching the 1981 ‘Dead & Buried’ film. Mind you, with 4 audio commentaries, it’ll be interesting…
‘The Necronomicon’ was, of course, a fictional book first used by HP Lovecraft in a short story, ‘The Nameless City’, published in 1921.…
Before we got onto Flametree’s booklist, ‘Vampires: Fantasy Art, Fiction And The Movies’ by Russ Thorne was on my list to look at.…
I pulled ‘Starhunter: The Complete Series’ more out of curiosity than anything. Released in 2000 and created by a multi-country co-operation, including the…
