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No Step Climb: a short story by GF Willmetts.
The plan seemed straight forward enough. This was the third extra-solar long rock, Big M, passing near enough Earth to grab a lift…
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Science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.
March 2025
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Watch The Skies (scifi/horror film: trailer).
Watch the Skies (2025) crash-lands into the sci-fi landscape like a saucer-shaped curveball from the outer reaches of teen drama and extraterrestrial intrigue.…
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The End: Mark Kermode’s scifi film review (video).
Just when you thought the apocalypse had exhausted every possible genre mash-up, along comes ‘The End’, Joshua Oppenheimer’s 2024 offering—a musical spectacle set…
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A Canticle For Leibowitz: still radiating genius? (video).
If there’s one thing humanity loves almost as much as blowing itself up, it’s forgetting we ever did it and gleefully preparing for…
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King Kong (2005) (film review).
Selecting the version of this 2005 film of ‘King Kong’ was interesting, as it appears to have been released with different box covers.…
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The Terminator: Hasta la lawsuit, baby… movie inspired by the Outer Limits? (video)
Here’s a plot twist worthy of Skynet itself. Does James Cameron’s iconic 1984 sci-fi thriller The Terminator owe its legendary cyborg assassin shtick…
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Extinction by Douglas Peston (book review).
Needless to say, when I started reading this book, ‘Extinction by Douglas Peston’, the shadow of ‘Jurassic Park’ was already looming large at…
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When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi (book review).
The museums noticed it first. Their samples were in full view. The change was obvious. Their moon rocks were no longer rocks. They…
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Alien: Earth—Can bringing Xenomorphs home end well? (TV series: trailer)
When you’ve had your fill of being trapped on gloomy spaceships and planets so remote they make Milton Keynes look cheerful, what’s left…
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Ash: scifi film review (video).
When your spaceship is mysteriously slaughtered, your crew reduced to chunky salsa, and you’ve woken up with a headache and the memory of…
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The Last Starfighter: Why arcade skills beat an Oxbridge degree any day (movie retrospective).
Back in the glorious days when an alien invasion could be thwarted by a spotty teenager armed only with a pocketful of 10p…
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Caution! Inflammable by Thomas N. Scortia (book review).
The opening introduction to this anthology, ‘Caution! Inflammable’ by Thomas N. Scortia and by Ted Sturgeon, could apply to any SF author. More…