NewsScience
Dice Doesn’t Play With God: an article by GF Willmetts.
There’s a reason why I reversed Einstein’s phrase, ‘God does not play dice with the universe,’ in the title. The science rules that…
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NewsKit
Problems With Multiple DVD Recorders: an article by GF Willmetts.
This was originally going to be in the Observations section of the editorial, but as it got ever lengthy, I decided it…
ReviewCulture
Retro Fan #34 September 2024 (magazine review).
This edition of ‘Retro Fan’ skips across the genres. First we have writer Herbie J. Pilato looking at the ‘CHiPs’ TV show. At…
ReviewScifi
Future Glitter by A.E. Van Vogt (book review).
In the introduction, Van Vogt explains how he was invited to a Chinese delegation meeting in New York by a friend he knew…
ReviewScifi
Full House (A Wild Cards novel book 30) edited by George R.R. Martin (book review).
‘Wild Cards’ book 30, ‘Full House,’ is a bit of an oddity. Ten novelettes/short stories that were originally released on the Internet and…
ReviewHorror
Scanners III: The Takeover (1991) (film review).
Don’t play party games with scanners. Alex Monet (actor Steve Parrish) flees to seek Zen harmony in Thailand rather than face being institutionalised…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #190 November 2024 (magazine review).
In his introduction to this issue of ‘Alter Ego,’ editor Roy Thomas points out his plan was originally to only have one issue…
ReviewBooks
Revelations: The Art Of Max Bertolini (book review).
I came across Revelations: The Art of Max Bertolini quite by chance. I have a lot of Paper Tiger books in my collection…
ReviewScifi
The Three-Body Problem, Volume 1 (of 10) by Liu Cixin with art by Xudong Cai (graphic novel review).
Cixin Liu’s novel, ’The Three-Body Problem, was published in China in 2008 and has since gone on to become a successful media franchise,…
ReviewFantasy
Mischief In The Wood by Tina Rath (book review).
Older readers will have grown up with fairy and folkloric stories, and many writers indulge themselves with rewriting them, sometimes to great acclaim.…
NewsHorror
Nosferatu: Mark Kermode’s horror film review (2024).
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is here, finally materialising after nearly a decade of gestation. Like the Count himself, it’s risen from development hell to…