TrailerStar Wars
Andor (new Star Wars TV series on Disney Plus: first trailer).
The Andor TV series on Disney Plus will take a fresh look at the Star Wars universe, focused on rebel spy Cassian Andor’s quest…
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NewsScifi
Stranger Things: Netflix scifi TV series reviewed by Mark Kermode (video).
Stranger Things, the next series of the Netflix scifi TV show, is reviewed by Mark Kermode. A group of adolescent pals see otherworldly…
ReviewScifi
Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics Of The 1950s by Dennis Saleh (book review).
Looking at Dennis Saleh’s other books, record album covers and poetry, ‘Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics Of The 1950s’ certainly comes out of…
ReviewScifi
The Beast by AE Van Vogt (book review).
The indicia to ‘The Beast’ by AE Van Vogt indicates this is the second issue, the first in 1964, although there is no…
ReviewScifi
Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott (book review).
Science Fiction has always reflected the concerns of the authors at the time of writing. When the possibility of a nuclear war was…
NewsStar Trek
Having a deep Star Trek conversation with a Star Trek script-writer (video).
He’s written for shows including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone, Sliders, and, most recently, Space…
NewsScience
A solar sail backed by NASA might take science to new worlds.
Sailing to the Stars As NASA continues to push the frontiers of exploration, a new solar sail idea chosen for development as part…
ReviewScifi
Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
Alastair Reynolds was a little-known contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Dafoe. His only novel of note was the seagoing adventure ‘Eversion’, which…
ReviewHorror
Quantum Of Nightmares (a Laundry Files novel) by Charles Stross (book review).
It has been almost two years since my last review of a Laundry Files book, ‘The Delirium Brief’. That one was number 8…
ReviewScifi
The Best Of Greg Egan by Greg Egan (book review).
The Best Of Greg Egan’ by Greg Egan is a collection of what he considers his twenty best Science Fiction short stories, novelettes…
ReviewScifi
Escape From Yokai Land (a Laundry Files novella) by Charles Stross (book review).
What we have here is an 81 page novella from Charles Stross which explains in some respect Bob Howard’s absence from books 6…
ReviewDoctor Who
Companion Chronicles The Second Doctor Volume 3 by Martin Day, Paul Morris, Penelope Faith and George Mann (CD review).
‘The Companion Chronicles’ has one of the Doctor’s many companions telling their own story and essentially being the centre of that story with…