True Names And The Opening Of The Cyberscience Frontier by Vernor Vinge (book review).
A quick spin through the opening credits of this book, True Names And The Opening Of The Cyberspace Frontier, reveals
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Ann Droid: Diane Morgan Puts the Artificial into Social Care (TV trailer).
The BBC has released Ann Droid, a new science-fiction comedy in which Diane Morgan plays a second-hand robot employed to
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The Antikythera Mechanism by Charles Rivers Editors (book review).
Truth to tell, I still can’t pronounce Antikythera. However, I needed to do some research into a recognised astronomical device
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The Queen by Nick Cutter (book review).
I read The Queen in mid-July, just as the first wasps began to appear in southern England, a good time
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Till Golem do us part? NewCon Press acquires The Crafter’s Wife (book news).
NewCon Press has acquired World English rights to The Crafter’s Wife, the debut fantasy novel by Dani Raanan, proving once
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These Broken Little Words (Polestars 13) by E.M. Faulds (book review).
When I was offered These Broken Little Worlds for review, I checked my computer banks and found that I had
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Mayday: new Netflix spy-fy comedy movie (trailer).
Apple TV has released the first trailer for Mayday, a Cold War action comedy in which Ryan Reynolds crash-lands inside
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The Odyssey: Mark Kermode’s fantasy film review (video).
The video review above belongs to Mark Kermode and Ben Bailey Smith, who stepped into Simon Mayo’s chair and discovered
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The Dog Stars: new trailer offers hope, horror and limited aviation fuel (movie).
Civilisation has ended again. This time there are no zombies, radioactive mutants or leather-clad gangs arguing over who owns the
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Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley (book review).
At the end of each monthly meeting of the rangers overseeing the reserves around the Blackwater Estuary, there is a
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