NewsScifi
Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator.
Parrot Analytics says AI anxiety has made The Terminator a streaming comfort watch, 42 years after release. We look at the numbers, and…
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October 2026
NewsFantasy
Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news).
Grok Imagine has posted Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey on X: seven minutes, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length "historically…
ReviewBooks
Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).
Jacques Vallee, in this 2008 update of ‘Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact’, questions whether the pilots of the UAPs come from…
September 2026
NewsCulture
Editorial – October 2026: Do AIs Need Humans?
Hello everyone Science fiction has an unusual specialisation as a genre: it warns of dangers in society, wrapping them in stories to make…
NewsCulture
Technology Does Not Equal Magic: an article by GF Willmetts.
Arthur C. Clarke said that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The point of this article is to question him. Within our…
NewsCulture
The Space Force uniform ‘inspired by Starship Troopers’, and nobody involved appears to have watched the film (news).
Trump posted a 'next generation' Space Force dress uniform to Truth Social, with a design sheet naming Starship Troopers as the inspiration. It…
August 2026
NewsCulture
Editorial – September 2026: Everywhere Carbon Footprints.
Hello everyone, With 2026 already regarded as one of the hottest periods in recorded world weather history, the number of people acknowledging that…
NewsCulture
Editorial – August 2026: Support Free Will.
Hello everyone, Support free will because it’s innocent. It’s independent and should only be swayed when there is a good reason. If you…
July 2026
NewsCons
Gods, Cider and the Fine Art of Doing Less: A Friday at the Idler Festival 2026 (convention report).
There are literary festivals that feel suspiciously like science fiction cons with better scarves and bush hats. Then there is the Idler Festival,…
June 2026
NewsCulture
Editorial – July 2026: How To Lose Your Individuality.
Hello everyone, For me, reading is a habit. I spend a couple of hours a day reading, although not all at the same…
ReviewBooks
The Recollections: Fragments From A Life In Writing by Christopher Priest (book review).
Christopher Priest died at 80 in 2024. This is a collection of his non-fiction pieces, assembled and introduced by his third wife, novelist…
ReviewBooks
The Unseen Self: Kirlian Photography Explained by Brian Snellgrove (book review).
For those who don’t know, if you place a light electrical charge across an organic object on photographic paper, you can produce what…