The Queen by Nick Cutter (book review)
I read ‘The Queen’ in mid-July, just as the first wasps began to appear in southern England, a good time
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Till Golem do us part? NewCon Press acquires The Crafter’s Wife (book news).
NewCon Press has acquired World English rights to The Crafter’s Wife, the debut fantasy novel by Dani Raanan, proving once
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These Broken Little Words (Polestars 13) by E.M. Faulds (book review).
When I was offered These Broken Little Worlds for review, I checked my computer banks and found that I had
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Mayday: new Netflix spy-fy comedy movie (trailer).
Apple TV has released the first trailer for Mayday, a Cold War action comedy in which Ryan Reynolds crash-lands inside
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The Odyssey: Mark Kermode’s fantasy film review (video).
The video review above belongs to Mark Kermode and Ben Bailey Smith, who stepped into Simon Mayo’s chair and discovered
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The Dog Stars: new trailer offers hope, horror and limited aviation fuel (movie).
Civilisation has ended again. This time there are no zombies, radioactive mutants or leather-clad gangs arguing over who owns the
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Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley (book review).
At the end of each monthly meeting of the rangers overseeing the reserves around the Blackwater Estuary, there is a
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Godzilla Minus Zero: Humanity tries the nuclear option (trailer).
The new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero has arrived, bringing with it devastated cities, traumatised survivors and the alarming suggestion
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Sam Neill, 1947–2026: Staying calm at the End of the World? (obituary)
Sir Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor who faced dinosaurs, Antichrists, alien dimensions, homicidal spacecraft and the occasional tentacled manifestation
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The Hour Of The Phoenix by Richard Saxon (book review).
Firstly, there are a lot of Richard Saxons out there now. The author of The Hour Of The Phoenix appears
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