ReviewFantasy
House of the Dragon: fantasy TV series (first review).
House of the Dragon is the Game of Thrones prequel TV series. But are the fans still interested and is it a patch…
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August 2022
August 2022
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UFO/UAP news roundup (21st August 2022).
Here’s the weekly round-up of all the best new content that is fit to print, and some that probably isn’t, concerning the topic…
NewsScience
Time wars? Bring it on! (science video)
In most works of science fiction, temporal paradoxes and time travel are usually entertaining, but what might a conflict that spans time really look like? Time travel and temporal paradoxes have long been a staple of science fiction, from the classic “Back to the Future”…
ReviewFantasy
Jack In The Green by Charles de Lint (book review).
An archetype is an original pattern or model on which all the subsequent characters or settings are based. They are not to be…
NewsFantasy
The Background of the First Dungeons & Dragons (video).
In this episode, we go deep into the background of a certain D&D ruleset. We’ll learn about the rules of “edition zero” of…
TrailerHorror
Wednesday Addams (trailer for this comedy horror TV series: Netflix).
Wednesday Addams, the forthcoming Tim Burton–created Netflix series, stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and a cast including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline…
ReviewBooks
Immersive Story Telling For Real And Imagined Worlds by Margaret Kerrison (book review).
With a title like ‘Immersive Story Telling For Real And Imagined Worlds’, you have to think this is one of publisher Michael Wiese…
TrailerScifi
Last Light: post-apocalyptic near future TV series (trailer).
Matthew Fox, Joanne Froggatt, and Alyth Ross all star in the new post-apocalyptic near future TV series, Last Light, based on the book…
ReviewScifi
Best Of British Science Fiction 2021 edited by Donna Scott (book review).
Here are twenty-three stories that appeared in various publications last year, collected for your delectation and delight because they represent ‘The Best Of…
NewsJ-life
The final farewell to Akihabara’s tiniest shop in Tokyo (J-life video).
Self-employed Koichi San has been selling little electrical items to thousands of Akihabara clients from the same modest place for 43 years. He…
NewsScifi
RoboCop: RoboWhat? A scifi movie retrospective.
Was RoboCop a scifi movie, or a crime movie, or a telling piss-take of modern society? Hey, why choose? Let’s look back at…
NewsScience
Most idiotic alien invasions (science video).
Though an alien invasion of Earth is a terrible possibility, such invasions are seldom justified in science fiction, says Isaac Arthur. In this…