UncleGeoff, Author at SFcrowsnest

The Complete Roderick by John Sladek (book review).

The last book I read by John Sladek (1937-2000) a long time ago was ‘The Müller-Fokker Effect’ (1970) which I

Thank the Illuminatii, a traditional Marvel story. A decent plot, play of dialogue and decent art. Alex Ross might not

After the success of the three ‘Pathfinders’ series, Sydney Newman took some of that cast into two series under the

Hello everyone, Picking subjects to talk about here is often like playing a playlist. There’s always a big chance for

‘That’s your star there. No, not that one. The one next to it. A little dimmer but also a lot

When I was reading ‘A Fortunate Universe: Life In A Finely Tuned Cosmos’ by Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A.

I pulled a copy of ‘Weird Science Volume 1’ simply because as much as I’ve read about EC Comics material,

Now this really is a quirky TV multi-series from independent company ABC back in 1960-61, produced by Sydney Newman and

‘Replicas’ is about neuroscientist William Foster (actor Keanu Reeves), working for a big corporation designing technology that can transfer the

For those who don’t know, Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was a skilled SF author and Hollywood scriptwriter, credited for detective noir