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Asimov’s at Fifty: half a century of the Good Doctor’s magazine (article).
Asimov's Science Fiction is fifty years old this December. A look back at the magazine that gave us Enemy Mine, Bloodchild and Accelerando,…
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October 2026
August 2026
FeatureFantasy
Gor blimey: swords, giant birds and an extremely dubious Counter-Earth (article).
There are fantasy series which age gracefully. There are fantasy series which become beloved period pieces. And then there is John Norman’s Gor,…
FeatureScifi
Earth: the Galaxy’s worst breakdown lane? (article).
There is a worrying amount of evidence in science fiction that Earth sits beside some sort of badly maintained interstellar roundabout. Aliens keep crashing…
July 2026
FeatureScifi
What Should You Drink In The Multiverse? Probably Not The Sandworm Juice (article).
There are many ways to judge a fictional universe. Some fans look at the starships. Some examine the magic systems. Others, more sensibly,…
April 2026
FeatureScifi
The 25 best science fiction novels according to science fiction readers (article).
Trying to compile a list of the best science fiction novels according to science fiction readers is a bit like trying to herd…
FeatureScifi
Ursula K. Le Guin: still ruling the science fiction canon (article).
Science fiction is forever declaring new emperors. Every few years a fresh contender stomps into the throne room with a giant concept, a…
March 2026
FeatureScifi
The Tomorrow People: Jaunting Back To The Seventies (article).
Before Stranger Things turned adolescence into a supernatural brand extension and before every other genre show discovered the ancient magic of “young people…
September 2025
FeatureAnime/manga
KPop Demon Hunter: Dancing with Demons? (article)
Some films sound like they were dreamed up during a late-night pub crawl after one too many pints. KPOP DEMON HUNTER is precisely…
April 2025
FeatureScifi
Spikes, Spandex & Space Camouflage: a century of Sci-Fi costumes (article).
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from a hundred years of science fiction, it’s that when humanity eventually spreads to the stars, it’ll…
January 2025
FeatureScifi
The Twilight Zone: a retrospective (article).
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is vast, it is infinite, and it somehow still makes…
September 2024
FeatureScifi
When in Ancient Rome… Just invent the Steam Engine already! (article)
Welcome to this deep dive into whether ancient Rome was just a toga party away from sparking its very own Industrial Revolution back…
March 2024
FeatureScifi
Space Above and Beyond – when a promising premise got Chig-whipped (article).
Larks, the ambitious Space: Above and Beyond series from the mid-90s. It had all the ingredients for a sci-fi epic – an interstellar…