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UFO: Destruct Positive! by Andy Lane (CD audio review)
Big Finish do love a story and this is a nostalgic outing to 1970 when Gerry Anderson cut the puppet strings and give…
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Science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.
November 2023
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Vanished Earth: Book 4 in The Flying Crooked Series by Geoff Nelder (book review).
‘Vanished Earth’ is the fourth book in the ‘Flying Crooked’ series by Geoff Nelder. The author does a helpful recap of the first…
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The Creator: a voyage through ambition, robots, and existentialism (film review).
It’s always a bit of a heartache when original films, bursting with potential, don’t quite live up to the box office expectations. The…
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Smuggler’s Guilt (Reese Daniels Smuggler series book 2) by T.D. Wilson (book review).
Reese Daniels might not want to be a hero but in the second novella in the T.D. Wilson’s series chronicling the smuggler’s adventures,…
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Starter Villain by John Scalzi (book review).
‘Starter Villain’ by John Scalzi is a standalone near-future science fiction action thriller with a significant dose of humour. Former journalist Charlie Fitzer…
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The Artificial Man And Other Stories by Clare Winger Harris (book review).
As I recently noted in another review, Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968) was the first female science fiction author to sell stories under her…
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2023, Volume 145 #768 (magazine review).
There was a time when it was common to note the number of recurring authors that appeared in magazines. Admittedly, there were fewer…
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Androne by Dwain Worrell (book review).
In short, ‘Androne’ is a pretty darn good for a first novel. Set in the near future, Dwain Worrell imagines a world where…
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Starter Villain by John Scalzi (book review).
Charlie Fitzer is a substitute teacher living in his dead father’s house in the town he grew up in. His only friend is…
September 2023
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Blood Child And Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
In the introduction to ‘Blood Child And Other Stories’, Octavia E. Butler admits to not favoring the craft of short story writing, primarily…
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Eclectic Dreams: A Milford Anthology edited by J W Anderson, Pete W. Sutton & Liz Williams (book review).
I have to declare and interest. I have been an attendee at the Milford SF Workshop on a number of occasions. For those…
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The Creator: a riveting tale of A.I., ethics, and humanity (Mark Kermode film review).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, is here to bring you his film review of the original new science fiction production, The…