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Stations Of The Tide by Michael Swanwick (book review).
To the watery world of Miranda comes the Bureaucrat, the unnamed protagonist of a very strange but in some ways rather splendid novel,…
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Science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.
October 2024
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The Wild Robot (Mark Kermode’s animated scifi movie review).
Here’s Mark Kermode’s take on the animated science fiction film, The Wild Robot. You can watch it above. For our thoughts on the…
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On Spec #129 Vol. 34 No. 3 (magazine review).
‘On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Fiction’ is a quarterly publication that features short stories, poetry, and a few articles. The 129th…
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Stingray Comic Anthology: Tales From The Depths Volume One (book review).
It’s remarkable that 60 years have passed since the TV series ‘Stingray’ made its dramatic debut. Naturally, the UK broadcasted it in black…
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Manalone by Colin Kapp (book review).
A book often sells by its title. In science fiction, there is some latitude to use unusual title hooks to make you want…
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Deep Black by Miles Cameron (book review).
“Deep Black” by Miles Cameron is the concluding novel in the Arcana Imperii duology, a space opera on the interstellar scale. Marca Nbaro…
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Best of British Science Fiction 2023 edited by Donna Scott (book review).
‘The Best of British Science Fiction’ is a regular annual anthology from Newcon Press that reprints the best science fiction stories published in…
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The Night Face by Poul Anderson (book review).
The copy of ‘The Night Face’ by Poul Anderson was its fourth reprinting, finally getting a better title than ‘Let the Spacemen Beware!’…
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A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle (book review).
I had never heard of Madeleine L’Engle (1918–2007), but upon researching her, I discovered that she was a prolific American writer spanning various…
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The Changes (1975) (TV series review).
Want to see a children’s TV series that is disturbing? Then you should watch this 1975 teen series derived from Peter Dickinson’s three…
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We’ll Prescribe You A Cat by You Ishida translated by E. Madison Shimoda (book review).
East of Takoyakushi Street, south of Tominokoji Street, west of Rokkaku Street, north of Fuyacho Street, Nakagyō Ward, Kyoto. These vague directions might…
September 2024
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Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg (book review).
Rebel American dissidents face minimal tolerance in an alternate version of Earth’s history. There is only one group of rebel American dissidents, and…