ReviewScifi
Telling The Bees (NP Novella #11) by Emma K. Leadley (book review).
‘Telling The Bees’ opens at lunchtime on 14th August 2035 with Sarah surveying her morning’s work on her farmstead. She has weeded multiple…
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August 2023
NewsFilms
Die Another Day: the spy who froze me? (spy-fy movie retrospective).
Die Another Day, the 2002 spy film, is the one where James Bond, played by the ever-suave Pierce Brosnan, decides he’s had enough…
NewsWorld getting weirder
Why does the U.S. State now need your granny to believe in UFOs? (weird news)
Somebody has to ask the question “Why does the U.S. state suddenly need your granny to now believe in UFOs?” Let’s take a…
NewsScience
Pulsars: the alien GPS we never knew we needed? (science video)
In a universe filled with mysteries, pulsars have always been the cosmic enigmas that have left scientists scratching their heads. These rapidly rotating…
NewsScifi
Rollerball (1975): into the dystopian future (scifi movie retrospective).
In the realm of science fiction cinema, few films have managed to capture the zeitgeist of their era while also predicting the future…
TrailerFantasy
Disenchantment’s penultimate disentanglement (fantasy TV series: trailer).
Well, my fantasy and scifi-loving lovelies, let me put the Nest’s literary musings on the back burner for a moment to delve into…
ReviewScifi
Cibola Burn (book 4 of The Expanse series) by James S.A. Corey (book review).
‘Cibola Burn’ by James S.A. Corey is the fourth novel in ‘The Expanse’ space opera series. Humanity has expanded to live throughout the…
ReviewHorror
The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 20 edited by Stephen Jones (book review).
‘The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror volume 20’ begins with a 77 page essay by the editor on ‘Horror In 2008’ which…
NewsScifi
Venomous Lumpsucker sucks up prestigious 2023 Clarke Award (award news).
To the shock, awe, and suppressed giggles of the literary world, Venomous Lumpsucker has claimed the 37th Arthur C. Clarke Award for the…
ReviewHorror
Sex And Horror 2: The Art Of Alessandro Biffignandi (book review).
So, here is the second ‘Sex And Horror’ book and I’m glad that Mark Alfrey in his introduction explains how to pronounce Biffignandi,…
ReviewFantasy
Contrarian: A Novel In The Grand Illusion (Book 3 of 3: The Grand Illusion) by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (book review)
‘The Grand Illusion’ series by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. was initiated with ‘Isolate’, continued with ‘Councilor’ and, here, concludes with ‘Contrarian’. There isn’t…
ReviewFantasy
The Blackhart Blades (NP Novella # 12) by David Gullen (book review)
‘The Blackhart Blades’ by David Gullen is that rare and lovely thing, a short fantasy story. It’s set in the usual mediaeval-style world…