NewsComics
Wally Wood versus Stan Lee over Daredevil (comic-book history).
Wally Wood was an American comic book writer and illustrator best known for his work on EC Comics’ Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, as…
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NewsHorror
Spoiler (short horror film: in full).
In Daniel Thron’s short horror movie, Spoiler, the zombie apocalypse occurred, and we triumphed. Since the global outbreak, the role of the coroner…
NewsOffworld Report
Editorial – June 2022: Truth And Untruth: Some Of Which Is Outright Lying.
Hello everyone There are times when I wish one of AE Van Vogt’s predictions for lie detectors to be commonplace in his ‘Null-A’…
NewsMEDIA
HARDBACK TO SMALL ENLARGED PAPERBACK – been a long time.
The Wisdom Of Crowds (Age Of Madness book 3) by Joe Abercrombie (pub: Gollancz. 533 page small enlarged paperback. Price: £ 9.99 (UK).…
NewsShort fiction
Trading Stakes: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
Responsibility. I woke out of hibernation with that word in my head. To do this trip, I had submitted myself to a few…
NewsScifi
When Nature Calls: an article by: GF Willmetts.
Clothes are designed to be either fashionable or usable, sometimes in between. If that is true of the past and present, then it…
NewsScifi
Stranger Things: Netflix scifi TV series reviewed by Mark Kermode (video).
Stranger Things, the next series of the Netflix scifi TV show, is reviewed by Mark Kermode. A group of adolescent pals see otherworldly…
NewsStar Trek
Having a deep Star Trek conversation with a Star Trek script-writer (video).
He’s written for shows including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone, Sliders, and, most recently, Space…
NewsScience
A solar sail backed by NASA might take science to new worlds.
Sailing to the Stars As NASA continues to push the frontiers of exploration, a new solar sail idea chosen for development as part…
NewsScifi
Babylon 5 scifi TV series: major retrospective (video).
Star Trek, the pop cultural phenomenon, dominated science fiction on television in the late 1980s. There seemed to be no place for anything…
NewsComputers
Free Guy: a film mini-review by Evelyn C. Leeper.
‘Free Guy‘ seems to crib a lot from ‘Stranger Than Fiction‘ and I’m sure if I knew more about video games it would…
NewsFantasy
The Wheel of Time TV show from Amazon: the main thing that killed it (article: video).
MCT describes the one most important adaptational shift that damaged The Wheel of Time TV programme, proving to be an intractable problem from…