Floods, Frankensteins and Foundation: another week in genre land (news roundup).
Apple TV+, never one to miss an opportunity to tell us how “visually stunning” their shows are (probably while standing
Read More
Spook Street (Slough House book 4) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unusual for a ‘Slough House’ thriller, Jackson Lamb is missing from the first third of this book, ‘Spook Street’. Instead,
Read More
The Long Walk: Mark Kermode’s scifi movie review (video).
Stephen King’s The Long Walk has been threatening to reach the screen since the late Palaeolithic era (or 1988, which
Read More
The Sentinels: radium, romance & rampaging Retro-Futurism (TV series).
If you thought you knew the First World War—mud, mustard gas, and moustaches bristling like bayonets—then Canal+’s new French science
Read More
Adrift In Currents Clean And Clear (Wayward Children series book 10 of 11) by Seanan McGuire (book review).
‘The Wayward Children’ books are written with the teenage reader in mind but can be enjoyed by all ages. The
Read More
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – more rage, more cults (trailer).
Now then, now then, Britain. Land of tea, scones, and recurring apocalyptic viral outbreaks. Just when you thought civilisation might
Read More
Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews With Legends of Science Fiction edited by Richard Wolinsky (book review)
‘Spaceships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! ‘Interviews With Science Fiction Legends’ is a book of interviews with a difference. Instead of
Read More
Unknown Destinies volume 1, edited by Fiction4All (ebook review).
‘Unknown Destinies Volume 1’ is an anthology of twenty-one stories from different authors, but not twenty-one different authors as some
Read More
The Great West Wood by Philip Palmer (book review).
Philip Palmer’s The Great West Wood is that rare novel which feels both startlingly original and yet rooted in a
Read More
SF: A Point Of Initials, an article by GF Willmetts.
Back in 2014 and a few times since, I’ve discussed the 17 sub-genres of science fiction, which included science fiction
Read More