The Traveler by Joseph Eckert (book review).
The idea of time travel has been around for a very long time. Many readers will be familiar with H.G.
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Saturday SciFi Splash: a workshop full of dinosaurs, a vampire at Netflix, and fandom having words (news roundup).
Phil Tippett’s Berkeley workshop closes for good, Netflix goes looking for Strahd, Worldcon’s business meeting reaches for the red pen, and the Horror Writers Association discovers what happens when you print a column about generative AI.
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God’s Vengeance by Theresa Derwin (book review).
One of the dilemmas any author faces is how long a work should be. Some mentors will tell them to
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Rogue Trooper trailer: Duncan Jones drags 2000 AD’s blue soldier to the BFI London Film Festival (trailer).
The Rogue Trooper trailer has arrived, and Duncan Jones has finally dragged 2000 AD’s blue-skinned killing machine onto a screen, with three BFI London Film Festival screenings in October.
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An Upset at the Hugos, a Sequel Thirteen Years Late, and a Reaper Who Can’t Keep Still (news roundup).
Three weeks of genre news in one go: a Hugo Awards upset in Anaheim, John Crowley’s death, T. Kingfisher’s suspiciously perfect publicity timing, and television quietly running out of books to adapt.
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Dune Part Three new trailer lands and the messiah business is going badly (trailer).
A new Dune Part Three trailer has landed, which means Warner Bros. is now rationing Arrakis footage with roughly the same generosity the Spacing Guild applies to spice.
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Thrill-power interrupted: the printer that printed 2000AD has gone bust
The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic has been felled not by the Dark Judges, not by a Sov nuke, but by a web offset press in Telford running out of paper. Precision Colour Printing, which has printed 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine since 2007, has gone into administration — and Rebellion has scrambled to keep the Thrill-power flowing.
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Survivor by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
Octavia Butler wrote five Patternist novels. The earlier books explore the long history that eventually leads to the Patternist society,
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Scion by James Islington (book review).
‘Scion’ by James Islington is standalone Science Fiction thriller. Azure is an enhanced human with revs, cogs and somatics, one
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The Eclipse Of 2044: a short story by GF Willmetts.
‘You’re going to make the sun disappear, just like that?’ ‘Is that a problem?’ ‘I think people will notice. Darkness.
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