NewsScience
Your robot can now chat to you: a little too well! (science video)
Greetings, all you Nestizen sci-fi enthusiasts. Today, we’ve got a little something that will tickle your circuits and fuel your imagination. Picture this:…
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October 2023
October 2023
NewsGames
When miniatures go rogue: how 3D printing is either saving or killing wargaming (video).
Who would have thought that the quiet, meticulous world of wargaming miniatures would be thrown into a tizzy with the advent of 3D…
NewsCulture
Editorial – November 2023: War Can Never Be Civilised.
Hello everyone, It’s very difficult to have a happy philosophical discussion with the world currently going to pot in the background. I try…
NewsShort fiction
This Story Might Kill You If You Read It: a deadly story by: GF Willmetts.
The legal department said I had to have a title name change. Originally, it was going to be called ‘This Story Will Kill…
NewsBooks
The Loch Ness Chimera: an article and two reviews by GF Willmetts.
Originally, I planned to review these two books independently, but, donning my geek hat and adopting a scientific perspective on the Loch Ness…
ReviewCulture
Retro Fan #25 March/April 2023 (magazine review).
Due to international postal delays caused by COVID-19 and issues with the British Post Office, several issues of TwoMorrow magazines did not arrive…
ReviewBooks
101 Top Tips For Fantasy Painters by Kevin Crossley (book review).
I’ve been neglecting the artbooks accumulating on my shelf lately. The dilemma? Deciding which one to dive into first. Hence, it’s time for…
ReviewScifi
Vanished Earth: Book 4 in The Flying Crooked Series by Geoff Nelder (book review).
‘Vanished Earth’ is the fourth book in the ‘Flying Crooked’ series by Geoff Nelder. The author does a helpful recap of the first…
ReviewFantasy
Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll (book review).
Everyone, at some time in their lives, wonders what would have happened if they had made different decisions at key points in their…
NewsStar Trek
Starship Farragut – episode: Price Of Anything (full video).
The fan-made Star Trek tribute act Starship Farragut has been captivating audiences since its launch in 2005, with its promise of “New Ship,…
NewsScifi
The space race: sizing up fictional starships (video).
Crikes, the never-ending debates that have occupied the sanctified halls of science fiction fandom—Kirk or Picard? Jedi or Sith? But perhaps the most…
NewsHorror
Five Nights at Freddy’s: a Mark Kermode horror movie review (video).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, is here to bring you his take on the horror film Five Nights at Freddy’s. Watch…