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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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…
ReviewComics
Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines Of Golden Age Comics compiled & annotated by Mike Madrid (graphic novel review).
This second volume, Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines Of Golden Age Comics, compiled by Mike Madrid, showcases 28 heroines who appeared in…
ReviewComics
Secret Six Volume 4: Caution To The Wind by Gail Simone and J. Calafiore (graphic novel review).
Of the four volumes, Secret Six Volume 4: Caution To The Wind by Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore was the hardest to track…
TrailerFantasy
House Of The Dragon Season 3 promises more dragons, more betrayal and considerably fewer sensible life choices (trailer).
If there is one lesson audiences should have learned from the first two seasons of House Of The Dragon, it is that giving…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #35 April 2004 (magazine review).
Editor Roy Thomas admits in his editorial that two major articles in this issue of Alter Ego squeezed out much of the magazine’s…
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…
ReviewScifi
Metro 2033 (book 1 of 3) by Dimitri Glukhovsy (book review).
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a post-apocalyptic science fiction horror thriller set within the Moscow Metro system that will, one hopes, put…
ReviewScifi
The Worlds Of Robert Heinlein (book review).
Although I have read most of Robert Heinlein’s novels, it appears I somehow missed this anthology, The Worlds Of Robert Heinlein. The collection…
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…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #5 August 2004 (magazine review).
There are a few back issues, if you’ll pardon the expression, of TwoMorrows Publishing’s Back Issue magazine that have long sat on my…