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Foam armour: a cosplayers’ creation guide (video tutorial).
Svetlana is here with a handy cosplayers’ guide to creating realistic-looking fantasy/scifi armour from scratch. She was tasked for bringing the Erazer Girl,…
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October 2022
October 2022
NewsFilms
Superman Returns (2006) a superhero movie retrospective (video format).
The production of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the next big-screen appearance of the Man of Steel, was plagued by tragedy and…
NewsCons
‘So THAT Was BristolCon 2022… (convention report)
BristolCon is a now annual one-day friendly Science Fiction and Fantasy convention held on the last Saturday in October at the DoubleTree by…
NewsCulture
Editorial – October 2022: Armageddon Or Bust.
Hello everyone, There is so much dictator sabre-rattling and even worse across the world right now, you do have to wonder where sanity…
NewsScifi
176 Years: Coming Ready Or Not: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
My computer flagged up an old space mission. The only manned flight left. Every 176 years, the outer planets line up for a…
NewsOffworld Report
Ray-Guns Don’t Stun! An article by: GF Willmetts.
The use of the ray-gun was essentially a trope to identify a futuristic weapon with fatal results and not use old-fashioned bullets as…
NewsComics
Cixin Liu’s The Circle: A Graphic Novel (The Worlds of Cixin Liu) by Xavier Besse.
Adapted into graphic novel format by Xavier Besse, Cixin Liu’s ‘The Circle’ is unusual among this series of adaptations and, from what I’ve…
NewsScience
Exobiotica: the art and science of speculative biology (science video).
The amazing artist Michael Beaudry’s speculative biology project “Exobiotica” aspires to provide a glimpse into the vast alien ecology of a planet called…
NewsScience
Stephen Webb discusses the most frightening explanations for the Fermi Paradox (science video).
Where have all the extraterrestrials gone? Is it even possible to find an answer to the Fermi Paradox? Dr. Stephen Webb, an astronomer…
NewsScifi
Crashed starships & shipwrecked spacecraft: an interesting science fiction trope (video).
There are a lot of stories in science fiction, notes Issac Arthur, that include spaceships becoming damaged or crashing… but this actually happens…
NewsScience
Why was Quantum Entanglement awarded the Physics Nobel Prize?
In most cases, the Nobel Prize in Physics is given to researchers who explain the workings of the natural world, i.e., those whose…
NewsScifi
36th Arthur C. Clarke Award goes to author Harry Josephine Giles (award news).
The 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year has been announced. Said UK-based award for science fiction…