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The End of Oak Street: when your quiet suburb time-slips (trailer).
There is something faintly sinister about suburban streets at the best of times. Too neat. Too tidy. Too many identical bins lined up…
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March 2026
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Mark Kermode’s science fiction film review).
There are films that politely introduce their premise, ease you in, maybe offer a canapé of exposition before the main course. And then…
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun: classic scifi film (retrospective).
There are films that stride confidently into cinema history in polished boots, puffed up with their own importance, and then there are films…
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Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle edited by George RR Martin (book review).
‘Wild Cards’ numbers either 32 or 33, there is a rare explanation of what this particular poker hand is. I’m calling this book…
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Where The Axe Is Buried by Ray Naylor (book review).
Ray Nayler is a Canadian author who largely grew up in California and who has been publishing SF since the early 2020s. He…
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Cities Are Forests Waiting To Happen by Cécile Cristofari (book review).
Cécile Cristofari is a new author. ‘Cities Are Forests Waiting To Happen’ is her second published book following ‘Elephants In Bloom’, which is…
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Worlds Of Exile And Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz Masterworks) (book review).
Amongst the Gollancz Masterworks selection is ‘Worlds Of Exile And Illusion’ by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018). It’s actually a composite of her…
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For All Mankind season 5 trailer promises Mars independence (video).
There are plenty of science fiction series that talk a good game about the future, then quietly retreat into laser pew-pew and people…
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Dune Part Three brings the holy war home, and Arrakis still isn’t offering package holidays (trailer).
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three is now looming over the horizon like another sandstorm with a grudge, and the newly released trailer suggests…
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Project Hail Mary: Mark Kermode’s scifi film review.
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, sits down to watch Project Hail Mary – you can watch his review above. There’s a…
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Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
The idea of generation ships has been around since before at least 1918, when physicist and rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published ‘The…
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The Essence by Dave Hutchinson (book review).
‘The Essence’ by Dave Hutchinson is an altered reality science fiction, which explores how we humans decide what is authentic and what is…