The Machine (2014) (DVD review).
After making allowances for the fact that you’ve seen it all before, many times before if truth be told, the
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Minding the Stars: The Early Jack Vance Volume Four edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (book review).
With collections of short stories that may stretch across several volumes, the selection process may be a tricky one. Do
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
The death of Octavia Butler in 2006 removed a brilliant black SF writer from our fold. I’ve read some of
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Jupiter Ascending . . . like YA, but without the book.
The second most interesting thing about Jupiter Ascending, after the fact that it’s created by the Wachowski siblings (aka The Matrix), is
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Wizards, Aliens And Starships by Charles L. Adler (book review).
Oddly, of all the aspects of my book collection, the section I regard as being most precious is the non-fiction
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Mass Effect: Foundation # 9 by Mac Walters (Writer) and Tony Parker (Artist) (comic-book review).
‘Mass Effect: Foundation’ is a series of comics exploring the back stories of the companions available to the player character
Read MoreEdge of Tomorrow . . . Groundhog Day with exo-suits?
Here’s the big new trailer for the science fiction film Edge of Tomorrow, whose elevator pitch was surely Independence Day meets
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The Drowning Girl: A Memoir by Caitlín R. Kiernan (book review).
Titles can sometimes be deceptive. The Victorians often wrote novels pretending that the book was a manuscript they had found
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The Long War (The Long Earth Cycle book 2) by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter (book review).
In ‘The Long War’ by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, the second book of ‘The Long Earth Cycle’, humanity has
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Lockstep by Karl Schroeder (book review).
The lockstep is the weirdest concept I have ever come across. By hibernating, the population of a far flung colony
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