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A Far Sunset by Edmund Cooper (book review).
If you’re into science fiction of any age, especially from the golden age, you might try this experiment. Choose an author or two…
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Science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.
September 2024
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Machine Vendetta (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies 3) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
One advantage of creating a unique setting for stories is the freedom to delve into the situation’s history, economics, and politics. The only…
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1984: From dystopian nightmare to overused meme (classic movie).
Grab your bottle of Victory Gin, light up a cigarette stuffed with the finest dust you could sweep off the Ministry of Truth’s…
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The Wild Robot: A scifi film with feathers, feelings, and a lot less Terminator (movie).
Get ready to reboot your emotions, folks, because The Wild Robot is landing in 2024, and it’s not your typical “metal-clad doom machine…
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Enemy Mine – the alien Bromance classic (movie retrospective).
Back in the heady days of the mid-80s, when neon and shoulder pads reigned supreme, along came Enemy Mine, a film that asked…
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Robot Dreams (2023): Mark Kermode’s animated scifi move review (video).
Picture it: New York City, 1984. No internet, no smartphones, and most definitely no dating apps. So, what does a lonely Dog do?…
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Darkome (book 1) by Hannu Rajaniemi (book review).
The year is 2038, and the Darkome of the book title refers to a place where illegal genetic manipulation is carried out. The…
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When in Ancient Rome… Just invent the Steam Engine already! (article)
Welcome to this deep dive into whether ancient Rome was just a toga party away from sparking its very own Industrial Revolution back…
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The Slow Burn of Society’s Downfall (video).
So, the slow collapse film genre—a cinematic subcategory that’s less about the explosion-filled, adrenaline-pumping chaos of “Mad Max” and more about watching society…
August 2024
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Off Centre by Damon Knight (book review).
It looks like I’m breaking my own rule of reading successive books by the same author. Unlike the previous Damon Knight books, this…
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War of the Worlds (2005), a classic science fiction film retrospective (video).
In 2005, a cinematic thunderstorm rolled into theatres, leaving audiences drenched in their own sweat and confusion. Steven Spielberg, the man who made…
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The Mechanics Of Memory by Audrey Lee (book review).
‘The Mechanics of Memory’ by Audrey Lee is a technological thriller rather than a science fiction novel. It’s set more or less in…