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Blood Of The Mantis (Shadows Of The Apt book three) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The race is on to find the mysterious Shadow Box that contains the legendary power of the Darakyon. Alvdan, the Wasp-kinden emperor, hopes…
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August 2012
August 2012
NewsFilms
Captain America, back in the world.
Here’s another tickler for The Avengers’ DVD release, this time a clip of Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, back in the world (current),…
NewsDoctor Who
Lots of scary Daleks: Moffat, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan interviewed.
The Doctor, his assistant and Dr Who’s head writer Steven Moffat gives us an insight in to the monsters and adventures that we…
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Third part of Dr Who Pond Life
In which Rory comes across a strange guest in his bathroom. And it isn’t a little wind after his curry the night before,…
NewsCulture
Telepathic robot bunny ears.
Here’s an interesting concept. Telepathic robot bunny ears, from Japan (of course), where sporting a pair of ‘Necomimi‘ ears – a headset with…
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Sometimes there’s a man, I won’t say a hero.
Thanks to Boingboing for highlighting the existence of this amusing documentary on the real Dude that the character of the same name was…
NewsFilms
Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007.
One for the BONDage and spy-fi fans among you. MGM will be releasing a new documentary in October this year called ‘Everything Or…
NewsScience
The planets of Cygnus.
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system,…
NewsHorror
The Apparition (Frank’s Take).
The poltergeist puff piece The Apparition would not put a decent scare into Casper the Friendly Ghost. This generic boofest is set in…
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Ecko Rising by Danie Ware
I really do hate coming down hard on a writer’s debut novel, but as I read Dani Ware’s novel, ‘Ecko Rising’, I was…
NewsFilms
The Avengers alternative beginning.
Those movie types over at Marvel know how to frontload the success of their DVDs/Bluerays for The Avengers, in this case, one of…
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Doctor Who – bedroom romp.
Well, it’s not much of a bedroom romp, to be sure, but the Doctor does smash the Amy Pond and Rory bedroom rule…