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Retrospective: The Magnetic Monster (1953): (a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper).
‘The Magnetic Monster’ is a film that throws around silly terms like ‘a paramagnetic force’ and its ‘epicenter’ but gives no evidence anyone…
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September 2019
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Ad Astra (SF film: double clip goodness).
A science fiction film, Ad Astra, that tracks Space Force astronaut Roy McBride (played by Brad Pitt) on a mission across the solar…
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2019, Volume 136 #742 (magazine review).
The March/April 2019 issue of ‘The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ contains a bumper crop of pieces, including a novella, three novelettes,…
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The Testaments (Handmaid’s Tale sequel) picked up by Hulu and MGM TV.
Margaret Atwood’s mother-of-all-dystopian novels Handmaid’s Tale now has had its imminent sequel – The Testaments (set 15 years after the previous work) –…
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Spaceside (Planetside book 2) by Michael Mammay (book review).
Michael Mammay’s debut novel ‘Planetside’ was highly addictive and very impressive. It introduced us to Colonel Carl Butler, who was sent to investigate…
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Emergence (scifi TV series).
New ABC-produced scifi TV series Emergence follows a small-town US police chief of Long Island’s Peconic Bay, Jo Evans, (Allison Tolman) who takes…
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Encounter (2019) (scifi movie trailer).
A paralysed chap in a wheel-chair played by Luke Hemsworth comes into contact with an organic-like meteorite which does a facehugger on him,…
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Embers Of War (book 1) by Gareth L Powell (book review).
‘Embers Of War’ is book one in the ‘Ember Of War’ series by Gareth L Powell. Trouble Dog is a warship. Well, she…
August 2019
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Terminator: Dark Fate (scifi film trailer).
There’s a new trailer out for the next Terminator movie produced by James Cameron, Terminator: Dark Fate, with Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor…
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Bleeding Shadows by Joe R. Lansdale (book review).
‘Bleeding Shadows’ is a large collection of short stories and novellas from 2013 by Joe R. Lansdale, a master of these forms. It…
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Once Upon A Parsec: The Book Of Alien Fairy Tales edited by David Gullen (book review).
The pitch for ‘Once Upon A Parsec’ basically tells you everything you need to know about it. It goes: Humans have fairy tales,…
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Mr. Robot (4th & final season) (trailer)
Mr. Robot reaches its fourth and final season on October 6th 2019 (USA Network and Amazon Prime). Elliot Alderson (played by the ever…