TrailerScifi
Halo: scifi TV series (trailer).
Halo is a forthcoming live-action military science fiction television series based on the Halo video game franchise. For those who aren’t fans of…
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January 2022
January 2022
NewsOffworld Report
Editorial – Feb 2022: An oddly-shaped world whose people pass through a square hole.
Hello everyone, As geeks, we see the world as oddly-shaped. Not the actual world per se which is still a somewhat top and…
NewsCulture
Qualifying Super-Heroes: an article by GF Willmetts.
I have odd thoughts. Sometimes they might be throwaway things that might suit a paragraph at the end of the editorial and this…
RoundupWorld getting weirder
UFO/UAP news roundup (30th Jan 2022).
Here’s the weekly roundup of all the best new content that is fit to print, and some that probably isn’t, concerning the topic…
ReviewComics
Harleen by Stjefan Šejić (graphic novel review).
It’s getting a bit worrying to start reading a Harley Quinn story and looking at the initial on the hotwater tap and think…
NewsShort fiction
Judicial 101: a short story by GF Willmetts.
In any other situation, the Judge would have looked down at the two claimants from his dais seeing them on an equal basis…
ReviewScifi
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell (SF Masterworks) (book review).
Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978) wrote ‘Wasp’ back in 1957. For the purposes of the story, an example is giving of how much chaos…
ReviewScifi
Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii duology book 1) by Miles Cameron (book review).
‘Artifact Space’ by Miles Cameron, the first of the ‘Arcana Imperii’ duology, is a crossover of space opera and thriller. Cadet Marca Nbaro…
ReviewScifi
Dawn (Book One of Lilith’s Brood) by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
In ‘Dawn’ by Octavia E. Butler, twenty-six year-old Lilith Iyapo awakens to find herself in isolated captivity after the human race has almost…
NewsFantasy
The King’s Daughter (a fantasy film review by Mark Kermode).
Fantasy movie The King’s Daughter is reviewed by our man of film, Mark Kermode. King Louis XIV catches a mermaid with the intention…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #20 February 2007 (magazine review).
The biggest surprise in finding a copy of this rare paper 2007 issue of ‘Back Issue’ is the opening editorial being changed to…
NewsScifi
Dune and Foundation: how the future might work, or just space opera? (video)
Rowan J Coleman has recently been loving two science fiction literary adaptations, Dune Part One and Foundation. And both of these shows/books made…