NewsFantasy
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…
RoundupWorld getting weirder
UFO/UAP news roundup (30th October 2022).
Here’s the weekly round-up of all the best new content that is fit to print, and some that probably isn’t, concerning the topic…
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…
ReviewHorror
Small Ghosts by Paul Lewis (book review).
‘Small Ghosts’ is a novella in the horror genre. Paranormal or supernatural might be better labels in this case but horror seems to…
ReviewScifi
The Best Of R.A. Lafferty (book review).
R.A. Lafferty aka Raphael Aloysius Lafferty or simply Ray Lafferty (1914-2002) has a lot of fans, hardly surprising when you see an introduction…
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…