ReviewScifi
Picks & Shovels (Red Team book 3) by Cory Doctorow (book review).
‘Picks & Shovels’ by Cory Doctorow is the third ‘Red Team’ novel, although if you were to read the series in the order…
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January 2025
January 2025
ReviewMagazines
Jack Kirby Collector Ninety Summer 2024 (magazine review).
The ‘Jack Kirby Collector’ is a quarterly magazine aimed at anyone with an interest or appreciation of the legendary comic book artist Jack…
ReviewBooks
Joe 90: Project 90 Technical Operations Manual by Chris Thompson & Jack Knoll, illustrated by Chris Thompson (book review).
Readers born after 2000 might not have come across ‘Joe 90,’ but it was big amongst the young in the 70s. Gerry and…
ReviewScifi
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner (book review).
Nickie Haflinger is a non-person. He escaped from the Tarnover with the knowledge to adopt different identities. We’re at a point when he’s…
ReviewHorror
Back Issue #155 November 2024 (magazine review).
This issue of ‘Back Issue’ is also editor Michael Eury’s last, as he sought retirement last year. An odd choice to end on,…
ReviewBooks
Century 21: Classic Comic Strips From The Worlds Of Gerry Anderson Vol. 4: Above And Beyond edited by Chris Bentley (graphic novel review).
These ‘Century 21: Classic Comic Strips’ volumes collect reprints from the famous ‘TV Century 21’ British comic (later just TV21) that first came…
ReviewScifi
Junkyard Planet by H. Beam Piper (book review).
H. Beam Piper is known for his ‘Fuzzy’ stories, but he did other stories as well. Back in 1958, his ‘Graveyard Of Dreams’…
ReviewScifi
The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynski (book review).
After fifty years of waiting, ‘The Last Dangerous Visions’ is finally here. ‘Dangerous Visions,’ the first groundbreaking anthology published in 1967, was followed…
ReviewBooks
High Vaultage by Chris and Jen Sugden (book review).
When an idea switches media formats, there is always a question as to whether the adaptation will be as successful in the new…
ReviewComics
Dark Night: A True Batman Story by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso (graphic novel review).
I wasn’t quite sure what I was buying with this book, ‘Dark Night: A True Batman Story,’ by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso,…
NewsScifi
MindStep: a Psi-Kicks story by GF Willmetts.
The last place Sara Seeker, Sheena Ramone and Courtney Adams expected to turn up was a private hospital ward in a general hospital…
NewsCulture
Editorial – January 2025: Matter Over Mind.
Hello everyone. With illnesses or injuries, I adapt to its needs, believing that while my mind is busy, the body can heal itself.…