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Picks & Shovels (Red Team book 3) by Cory Doctorow (book review).
‘Picks & Shovels’ by Cory Doctorow is the third ‘Red Team’ novel, although if you were to read the series in the order…
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The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner (book review).
Nickie Haflinger is a non-person. He escaped from the Tarnover with the knowledge to adopt different identities. We’re at a point when he’s…
ReviewHorror
Back Issue #155 November 2024 (magazine review).
This issue of ‘Back Issue’ is also editor Michael Eury’s last, as he sought retirement last year. An odd choice to end on,…
ReviewScifi
Junkyard Planet by H. Beam Piper (book review).
H. Beam Piper is known for his ‘Fuzzy’ stories, but he did other stories as well. Back in 1958, his ‘Graveyard Of Dreams’…
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The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynski (book review).
After fifty years of waiting, ‘The Last Dangerous Visions’ is finally here. ‘Dangerous Visions,’ the first groundbreaking anthology published in 1967, was followed…
NewsScifi
MindStep: a Psi-Kicks story by GF Willmetts.
The last place Sara Seeker, Sheena Ramone and Courtney Adams expected to turn up was a private hospital ward in a general hospital…
NewsCulture
Editorial – January 2025: Matter Over Mind.
Hello everyone. With illnesses or injuries, I adapt to its needs, believing that while my mind is busy, the body can heal itself.…
NewsScience
Dice Doesn’t Play With God: an article by GF Willmetts.
There’s a reason why I reversed Einstein’s phrase, ‘God does not play dice with the universe,’ in the title. The science rules that…
ReviewCulture
Retro Fan #34 September 2024 (magazine review).
This edition of ‘Retro Fan’ skips across the genres. First we have writer Herbie J. Pilato looking at the ‘CHiPs’ TV show. At…
ReviewScifi
Future Glitter by A.E. Van Vogt (book review).
In the introduction, Van Vogt explains how he was invited to a Chinese delegation meeting in New York by a friend he knew…
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Full House (A Wild Cards novel book 30) edited by George R.R. Martin (book review).
‘Wild Cards’ book 30, ‘Full House,’ is a bit of an oddity. Ten novelettes/short stories that were originally released on the Internet and…
ReviewHorror
Scanners III: The Takeover (1991) (film review).
Don’t play party games with scanners. Alex Monet (actor Steve Parrish) flees to seek Zen harmony in Thailand rather than face being institutionalised…