NewsBooks
Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions Manual 2 by Derek Smith and Graham Bleathman
After reading the first book, you would think there wouldn’t have been enough material left for a second. However, ‘Wallace & Gromit: Cracking…
The SFcrowsnest archive
August 2012
August 2012
ReviewBooks
Tomorrow, When The War Began by John Marsden (book review).
I’m not entirely why John Marsden’s novelisation, ‘Tomorrow When The War Began’, is Science Fiction. Taken from a young adult perspective, the seven…
NewsBooks
Legion by Brandon Sanderson
Blessed with the ability to file away perfectly all information he receives and then conjure up an imaginary avatar or ‘aspect’ for it,…
NewsGames
Arcane Empires.
If you are a fan of the Command and Conquer-style strategy game, you like steampunk, and have an android or iPhone/iPad device, then…
NewsScience
The sleeping of the dream.
You’d have to be on Mars not to have heard that astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of…
NewsFilms
The Expendables 2 (Frank’s take).
Stallone and his carnage crew are back for more firepower and flippancy in the hyperactive sequel The Expendables 2. These aging and rollicking…
NewsFilms
The Bourne Legacy (Frank’s take).
The rousing fourth instalment of the Bourne movie series looks forward to continuing the tenacious trend following the excitable exploits of one of…
NewsScifi
Para Time. Slider with Cops?
The chap behind the retro time-travelling TV crime series, Life on Mars (and its follow-up Ashes to Ashes), Matthew Graham, is coming back…
NewsScifi
Star Wars Detours.
For those that like their Star Wars live action-stylee and believe that the Clone Wars is a step too far for the Lucas…
NewsIllustration
Portals to infinity.
In 2011 a lover of my work who had always liked the Galactic Tours ‘portal’ illustration asked if the original was still available.…
NewsIllustration
Mars landing
Here’s a timely painting given the Curiosity media interest… a landing on Mars.
NewsIllustration
War of the Worlds, Dave Hardy style.
Here’a a painting for HG Wells’ War of the Worlds.