Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines (book review).
Peter Clines is a fiction writer who lives near Hollywood and whose day job revolves around film journalism. At first
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Sharps by K.J. Parker (book review).
As a sweeping generalisation, KJ Parker’s novels are intelligent, funny, brutal, thrilling and inaccessible. Parker’s gift – one of them,
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The Final Programme (1973) (DVD review).
I watched this movie, ‘The Final Programme’, almost 40 years ago, in the spirit of the age in which it
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Reaper’s Legacy Toxic City: Book Two by Tim Lebbon (book review).
The stakes are raised in ‘Reaper’s Legacy’, the second book of Tim Lebbon’s ‘Toxic City’ trilogy in which London has
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (book review).
Ann Leckie’s first novel, ‘Ancillary Justice’, has some interesting ideas that would work well in a short story but vastly
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Devil Girl From Mars (1954) DVD.
It’s a journey back in time, way back to 1954, for this British B-movie, ‘Devil Girl From Mars’, and you
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Ascendant Stars (Book Three of Humanity’s Fire) by Michael Cobley (book review).
‘Ascendant Stars’ is part three of a big trilogy, ‘Humanity’s Fire’, which can be a problem. The book opens with
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Maleficium by Martine Desjardins scoops the 2013 Sunburst Award.
The Sunburst Award winner for their 2013 adult award is Maleficium by Martine Desjardins; translated by Fred A. Reed and
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A Companion To Science Fiction edited by David Seed (book review).
The first question that always needs to be asked about any non-fiction book is who is it aimed at and
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Terra by Mitch Benn (book review).
Lbbp has always preferred plants to people. Whilst researching Earth’s biodiversity, he accidentally became the proud parent of a bouncing
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