NewsCulture
To Plan Or Not To Plan Or Somewhere In Between (Editorial – June 2026).
Hello everyone, Being able to plan is part of life. You have to anticipate problems, select solutions and apply them. Planning permeates almost…
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May 2026
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NewsShort fiction
A Stab In The Murder: a Psi-Kicks story by GF Willmetts (short fiction).
The pathologist pulled the sheet back from the dead woman on the slab and consulted her pad. Identity unknown. Stabbed through the chest.…
NewsScience
SHADO Vehicles: A Cheaper Way To The Moon And Back (an article by GF Willmetts).
With the recent renewed interest in crewed lunar missions, I thought it would be appropriate to go back to 1972’s vision of the…
NewsHorror
Backrooms: Mark Kermode’s horror film review (video).
There are certain places in life that feel faintly wrong. An empty shopping centre five minutes before opening. A motorway service station at…
NewsFantasy
Jon Courtenay Grimwood signs two-book Historical Fantasy deal with Transworld (Heaven immediately looks nervous) (news)
Transworld UK has pre-emptively acquired two new historical fantasy novels from bestselling author Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which is a sentence that already sounds…
NewsScifi
The Mandalorian And Grogu: Mark Kermode scifi film review (video).
There was a time when a new Star Wars film arriving on the big screen felt like the second coming of sliced…
NewsCons
Christopher Mellon UAP keynote UAP science conference, as Toronto prepares for three days of saucer-adjacent seriousness (news).
Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and former Minority Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on…
NewsScifi
Lexx: Star Trek’s Evil Twin With Better Boots And Worse Impulse Control (TV retrospective).
There are science fiction shows that boldly go where no one has gone before, and then there is Lexx, which staggered into the…
NewsCulture
Editorial – May 2026: Moon Trek.
Hello everyone, Now here’s a quandary for you. We’ve had people disbelieving that the Apollo missions to the Moon happened. Now it’s happening…
NewsComputers
Back-Up Your Computer Files: a knowledge article by Geoff Willmetts.
I know this is a long piece about an apparently easy operation, but it is full of decisions you are likely to make…
NewsScifi
Hack-Job: a story by GF Willmetts.
There are many turning points in our history. The one thing that probably beat them all was the discovery of an alien textbook…
NewsComics
The Pro by Gareth Ennis, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Paul Mounts (graphic novel).
One of the things I often do is hunt around for comic books drawn by Amanda Conner that I haven’t come across before,…