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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…
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January 2025
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…
ReviewScifi
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…
ReviewScifi
The Three-Body Problem, Volume 1 (of 10) by Liu Cixin with art by Xudong Cai (graphic novel review).
Cixin Liu’s novel, ’The Three-Body Problem, was published in China in 2008 and has since gone on to become a successful media franchise,…
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Mischief In The Wood by Tina Rath (book review).
Older readers will have grown up with fairy and folkloric stories, and many writers indulge themselves with rewriting them, sometimes to great acclaim.…
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Nosferatu: Mark Kermode’s horror film review (2024).
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is here, finally materialising after nearly a decade of gestation. Like the Count himself, it’s risen from development hell to…
December 2024
ReviewScifi
Kings (A Wild Cards novel book 29) edited by Melinda M. Snodgrass (book review).
The 29th mosaic of ‘Wild Cards,’ ‘Three Kings,’ looks a lot slimmer than the previous two books, but it is spread over 14…
ReviewScifi
Terror From The Year 5000 (1958) (film review).
In the past, people viewed time as just another barrier or obstacle to overcome. The most Professor Howard Erling (actor Frederic Downs) and…
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Death of a Unicorn – a horned horror-comedy gallops into cinemas (trailer).
Imagine, if you will, Paul Rudd—Hollywood’s enduring man-child—playing chicken with a unicorn. It’s not your average fairy tale collision; it’s Death of a…
ReviewHorror
Cryptology #1 (magazine review).
It’s difficult to believe it’s been 6 years since ‘Retro Fan’ came out. ‘Cryptology,’ this time, is also a British-edited magazine by Peter…
ReviewScifi
The Phantom Planet (1962) (film review).
Set in the year 1980, an interplanetary spacecraft is making a log on its way back to the Moon when it’s caught in…