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Kepler’s Son: book 3 of the Flying Crooked Series by Geoff Nelder (book review).
‘Kepler’s Son’ is book 3 of the ‘Flying Crooked’ series but can be read independently as the author supplies a handy summary of…
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December 2022
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Psi High And Others by Alan E. Nourse (book review).
I recently came across ‘Psi High And Others’ (1967) and remembered it was on to read list years ago. Its author, Alan E.…
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Everything You Dream Is Real by Lisa De Nikolits (book review).
‘Everything You Dream Is Real’ by Lisa De Nikolits is a sequel to ‘The Rage Room’. It is near future Science Fiction set…
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Hard To Be A God by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (book review).
Strugatsky wrote many great novels over the years but ‘Hard To Be A God’ is more baffling than these. The Strugatsky brothers did…
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr. (book review).
When me and Rosie Oliver decided we wanted to explore more of Gollancz SF Masterworks, I suggested she tried some James Tiptree Jr.…
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Presented In SuperColorisation (blu-ray release review).
When I was first told that Network was putting the early Anderson black and white series into colour, I thought it might be…
November 2022
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Rayguns & Rocketships by Rian Hughes (book review).
If you do the page flick test with ‘Rayguns & Rocketships’, you could be mistaken to think its all about paperback covers. However,…
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Illustrators: The Art Of Sydney Jordan/The Art Of Jim Holdaway (magazine review).
I should point out that ‘Illustrators: The Art Of Sydney Jordan/The Art Of Jim Holdaway’ is a limited 1000 copy print run and…
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Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland (book review).
I should point out that the ‘Plenty’ in Colin Greenland’s 1990 novel, ‘Take Back Plenty’, is actually a planetary destination in the solar…
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Galaxias by Stephen Baxter (book review).
To my mind, Stephen Baxter is one of Britain’s finest living authors of hard Science Fiction. Like Sir Arthur C. Clarke, with whom…
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Dune: The Graphic Novel book 2: Muad’Dib, by writers Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and artists Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín (graphic novel review).
This is the second of three parts in the graphic novel adaptation of Frank Herbert’s original ‘Dune’ novel. The script is by Kevin…
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Neom (a novel from the world of Central Station) by Lavie Tidhar (book review).
Set in the world of Lavie Tidhar’s ‘Central Station’ novel, ‘Neom’ shares the same rich and varied history, multiple cultures, traditions and strange…