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Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (book review).
The Knight’s Move Project is a search for teleportation in the future. The Knight’s Move Project originates from the chess knight, who moves…
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Detective Comics: 80 Years Of The Batman: The Deluxe Edition (graphic novel review).
Of the three introductions, only Senator Patrick Leahy ignored Bill Finger’s contribution to the Batman mythos. Dan DiDio notes that Batman debuted in…
NewsScifi
Companion: Mark Kermode’s science fiction film review (video).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, is here to watch the scifi horror flick Companion, and bring you his findings in the…
ReviewFantasy
The Runes Of Engagement by Dave Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell (book review).
There can be very few readers who are unaware of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic trilogy, “Lord of the Rings,” or of the rage of…
ReviewScifi
Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter (book review).
This is my first time reading a book by K.W. Jeter, but with a title like ‘Farewell Horizontal,’ you have to be curious…
NewsScifi
Larry Niven: Ringworlds, Puppeteers, and the joy of indestructible Monomolecular Wires (interview).
There are few authors in science fiction who have managed to blend hard science with outright insanity quite as well as Larry Niven,…
FeatureScifi
The Twilight Zone: a retrospective (article).
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is vast, it is infinite, and it somehow still makes…
ReviewScifi
The Sound And The Furry: The Complete Hoka Stories by Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson (book review).
‘The Sound And The Furry’ consists of two novels: ‘Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!’ and ‘Hokas Pokas.’. The Hokas are a sentient teddy bear-looking species…
ReviewScifi
The Gift limited edition 4K Ultra HD (film review).
Originally released in 2000, ‘The Gift’ follows widowed Annie Wilson (actress Cate Blanchett), who has three sons and is a practicing psychic in…
ReviewFantasy
That Which Stands Outside by Mark Morris (book review).
There is a tradition of horror novels isolating a community or group of people and having nasty things happen to them, often involving…
TrailerScifi
Mickey 17 – a scifi comedy movie of errors (and deaths) on ice (2nd trailer).
When Bong Joon-ho, the mastermind behind Parasite, decides to direct a sci-fi black comedy about a bloke who dies for a living, you…
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UFO/UAP news roundup (25th January 2025).
Here’s the semi-irregular round-up of all the best new content that is fit to print, and some that probably isn’t, concerning the topic…