Time Frame: an article by GF Willmetts.
Something that has always been gotten wrong in most science fiction is the belief that even faster-than-light brings different worlds
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Slow Horses (Slough House Thrillers book 1) by Mick Herron (book review).
I’ve seen the ‘Slow Horses’ TV series on DVD and thought it was about time I looked at the books,
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Cryptology #3 Spring 2025 (magazine review).
We could have devoted the third issue of ‘Cryptology’ to the Mars problem. You know, the invasion stuff happened before
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Elephants In Bloom (Polestars 5) by Cécile Cristofari (book review).
‘Elephants In Bloom’ by Cécile Cristofari is the fifth book in the Polestars series of individual author short story collections
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Retro Fan #36 January 2025 (magazine review).
Catching up with ‘Retro Fan.’ Writer Mark Voger goes over some details of a 2011 interview with actress Stefanie Powers
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Outland: Marshal O’Nonsense and the Dirty Space Dozen (classic SF film retrospective).
There’s a moment in Outland (1981) when Sean Connery’s beleaguered space Marshal, eyebrows doing most of the acting, stares down
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War of the Worlds: humans are the harvest (2025) (Amazon Prime scifi film trailer).
Here come the tripods again—but this time, they’re not just stomping across Surrey with heat-rays; they’re also scanning your browsing
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2: Freddy’s Back (and this time he’s brought friends).
Well, well. Just when you’d finally stopped having cold-sweat dreams about homicidal animatronics and that infernal chuckle in the dark,
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Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (book review).
In case no one has noticed, there are books in print that don’t contain elements of science fiction or fantasy.
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Shin Godzilla returns: Bureaucracy, behemoths, and a bloody big metaphor (monster movie trailer).
Godzilla, that beloved scaly metaphor for nuclear horror, ecological collapse, and now—joy of joys—governmental inefficiency, is back in Shin Godzilla,
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