ReviewScifi
Future Science Fiction Digest #13 (e-magazine review).
‘Future Science Fiction Digest # 13’ is an unusual issue with only three stories, the star being ‘A Mountain Of Dust’ by Wangxiang…
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December 2021
ReviewScifi
The End Of The Line edited by Jonathan Oliver (book review).
Using the London Underground as a setting for the bizarre or horrific has a venerable and significant history. Doyle, of course, used the…
ReviewScifi
The Many Lives Of Heloise Starchild by John Ironmonger (book review).
‘The Many Lives Of Heloise Starchild’ is fundamentally the story about the experiences of women through a line of matrilineal descent. Think of…
NewsScifi
Ikarus (short science fiction film: in full).
Here’s short science fiction film Ikarus by Shaun Escayg. Following her brother being badly wounded, a scavenger must learn how to shoot down…
RoundupWorld getting weirder
UFO/UAP content roundup (18th Dec 2021).
Jin Yu of the X-Line YouTube channel, a South Korean UFO researcher, joins Cristina to discuss the UAP and UFO situation in Korea,…
ReviewScifi
Orphans Of The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (book review).
I was pointing out elsewhere that I intended to read Heinlein’s ‘Orphans Of The Sky’ so here we are. It consists of two…
ReviewFantasy
Rockman: The Dark Rider (book 3 of 3) by Mark Pickvet (book review)
‘Rockman: The Dark Rider’ is a direct sequel to ‘Rockman: The Battle’ in Mark Pickvet’s post-apocalypse fantasy series. The ‘Rockman’ books were published…
NewsAnime/manga
Cowboy Bebop, the live action Netflix show: did it do the anime honour? (video)
The Critical Drinker finally settles down in front of the live action version of anime Cowboy Bebop on Netflix, a wee dram in…
ReviewScifi
The Best Short Stories Of Fredric Brown (book review).
If you’re wondering who Fredric Brown is, remember the Frank Kelly Freas picture of the green Martian cynically looking through a keyhole. Brown…
NewsScience
Why we shouldn’t go looking for extraterrestrials (science video).
Humanity is faced with a dilemma when confronted with the apparently empty cosmos. We’re keen to know whether we’re the only ones in…
TrailerScifi
Everything Everywhere All at Once (scifi film: trailer).
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s forthcoming weird science fiction picture, Everything Everywhere All at Once, is written and directed by Daniel Kwan and…
ReviewFantasy
Rockman: The Battle (book 2 of 3) by Mark Pickvet (book review).
‘Rockman’ subtitled ‘The Battle’ is a direct sequel to ‘Rockman The Beginning and’ is a post-apocalypse fantasy series by Mark Pickvet. The ‘Rockman’…