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Editorial – November 2016: All decisions are based on choice.
Hello everyone With our options for space travel so limited, let’s play around with one that tends to come out of the Science…
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Gravitons Make Flight Work: an article by: GF Willmetts.
Back in the 1980s, the now late editor/comicbook writer Mark Gruenwald declared for ‘The Marvel Universe Handbook’ that the main means of propulsion…
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So Far, So Near: a short but long story by: GF Willmetts.
We’d been monitoring both Voyager probes leaving the Solar system for decades, even noting its swing in direction in the Kuiper Belt that…
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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Jake’s grandfather, thought to be suffering from dementia, tells the most fantastic stories of his fighting of monsters during WWII from an island…
NewsHorror
‘Oh The Horror: Diversity Can Be Such A Macabre Masterpiece’ (movie article by Frank Ochieng).
Indeed, the saturation of the contemporary horror genre and all its conventional sub-divisions of conception have seen its better days. Although there is…
NewsBooks
Ken Liu: interviewed by Gareth D Jones.
Official Bio: Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of…
NewsBooks
Cixin Liu: interviewed by Gareth D Jones.
It’s a surprisingly warm October day in London and the Embankment is crowded with tourists. Outside the South Bank Centre, dozens of people…
NewsHorror
The Monster (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Bryan Bertino directs ‘The Monster’, a suspenseful horror film about a mother and daughter stranded at night on a deserted road. Their car…
NewsHorror
Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween (film review by Frank Ochieng)
For those so-called devoted Tyler Perry fans out there wondering why it took so long to bring back their favorite sassy gun-toting grandma…
NewsHorror
Shin Godzilla (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Japan assesses its relation to the rest of the world and its relation to itself and its culture in a reboot of the…
NewsScifi
Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Godzilla) (2016) (film review by Frank Ochieng)
One might nostalgically recall the days back when the cheesy yet infectious Japanese monster movies were such a magnificent draw during those hazy…
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The Windmill (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
[Note: this review contains minor spoilers.] Eight or so tourists, each flawed, take the same one-day sightseeing excursion from Amsterdam. When the bus…