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Our Galaxy? It’s a gas!
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas…
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September 2012
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Lost in the Cloud Atlas.
Here’s the latest trailer for the SF film Cloud Atlas. It will be interesting to see if this does as well as the…
NewsScifi
Animal Magnetism.
Okay TV watchers…your fellow human beings are not the only ones that can bring some drama and comedy to a science fiction/fantasy television…
NewsScifi
Hobbity poster.
There’s a new poster just brimming with Hobbity goodness from Peter Jackson. This one has a small hairy-footed chap last seen in The…
NewsScifi
Total Recall by Philip K. Dick
‘Inspired by’ is a tricky turn of phrase. It can be so difficult to measure the level of inspiration garnered from one medium…
NewsHorror
House at the End of the Street (Frank’s Take).
Well folks…what is in store for you in the hackneyed horror flick ‘House At The End Of The Street ? The answer: nothing…
NewsAnime/manga
Drunk Duck! by Chuck Rowles.
The battle between print and digital media has been waging for some time now and it seems as though the latter is poised…
NewsScifi
Quantum Coin by E.C. Myers.
Ask and you shall receive. When I reviewed the first book in this series, ‘Fair Coin’, I hoped that this would not be…
NewsScifi
Dredd 3D (Frank’s take).
The forgettable 1995 film ‘Judge Dredd’ (or as a majority of film critics and fans deemed it Judge Dread-ful) starring Sylvester Stallone was…
NewsScifi
Unsung Zeroes.
Let’s face it, people…we like our heroes in sci-fi/fantasy that challenge the conventions of courageousness and leadership. However, the thought of being a…
NewsHorror
The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish
Aimed at teen-agers, ‘The Hunting Ground’ gets to the heart of fear. With abandonment, violence and isolation this ticks all the boxes…
NewsScifi
Palimpsest by Charles Stross
As a novella, Palimpsest is densely packed with extraordinary ideas, facts and speculation. It also manages to pack in an absorbing story to…