Rude Hand Gestures Of The World by Romana Lefevre (book review)
After reading Chronicle Books ‘How To Swear Around The World’ by Jason Sacher, I was interested in their companion book,
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Aldous Huxley’s Hands by Allene Symons (book review).
Allene Symons memories of Science Fiction author Aldous Huxley comes largely from her father, Howard Thrasher, who knew the author
Read MoreEditorial – January 2016: Who let the droids out?
Hello everyone Y’know, I did a newspaper quiz about ‘Star Wars’ in December and knew I had over 80% correct
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Macbeth (2015) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Slow and uninspiring, Justin Kurzel’s mutes all but Shakespeare’s words to take away any thrill from this version of the
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The Fantastic Made Visible edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington (book review).
‘The Fantastic Made Visible’ has nothing to do with invisible films. The sub-title, ‘Essays On The Adaptation Of Science Fiction
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Kepler And The Universe by David K. Love (book review).
As author David K. Love points out, Johannes Kepler was a man who made as many mistakes as he got
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Would you like pizza with that pizza?
Hats off to Vinnie’s Pizzeria in New York (pronounced New Yawk, by the residents of Brooklyn, we are led to
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Nick Offerman says it’s Suntroy time (for 45 minutes).
Nick Offerman, perhaps better known as Ron Swanson in the Parks and Recreation sitcom, brings us a forty five minute
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Editorial – December 2015: What a scary world we live in.
The real life boogiemen are far more frightening than anything thought up in fiction. Hello everyone There is something that
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How To Swear Around The World by Jason Sacher, illustrated by Toby Triumph (book review).
Whenever I employ a foreign language in my stories, one of the first things I look for isn’t something you
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