Phantaxis: Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine – August 2017 (magazine review)
I’m a bit late with this review of the August 2017 ‘Phantaxis Quarterly’ because I got bogged down in other
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Go Forth And Multiply: Twelve Tales Of Repopulation edited by Gordon Van Gelder (book review)
I’ve often found when reading Science Fiction from the 50s and 60s that what dates it more than the technology
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War In Heaven by Gavin G. Smith (book review).
‘War In Heaven’ is the sequel to ‘Veteran’ by Gavin Smith or is it Gavin G. Smith? Both books list
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Downsizing film trailer (Honey I Shrunk the Kids for the 21st century?)
Downsizing is an upcoming science fiction comedy-drama directed by Alexander Payne, imagining, as a solution to over-population and its toll
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Ash And Quill (Novels of The Great Library) by Rachel Caine (book review).
In his novel, ‘The Legion Of Time’, Jack Williamson coined the phrase ‘Jonbar Hinge’. It has since come to define
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Jerry Pournelle dies … another of the classic science fiction masters gone.
Author Jerry Pournelle’s children have now told us that their famous father passed away yesterday, aged 84. He’d only just made
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Sea Of Rust by C. Robert Cargill (book review).
After centuries of mankind’s increasing reliance on robots, they turn on their makers and wipe them out. That’s not what
Read MoreTemporal Decision: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
‘Why did you call me here?’ Bran whispered in the ear of his companion. ‘You only have to arrange the
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Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson (book review).
The difficulty with time travel stories is that it’s very easy to tie yourself in knots whilst trying to make
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Best Of British Science Fiction 2016 edited by Donna Scott (book review).
This collection purports to be the best of British Science Fiction from 2016. Reading ‘Interzone’ many years ago has left
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