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David Brin 2022: the science fiction author interview (video format).
Is it possible that our planet was saved by science fiction? Dr. David Brin, a scifi author and a space physicist, talks to…
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176 Years: Coming Ready Or Not: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
My computer flagged up an old space mission. The only manned flight left. Every 176 years, the outer planets line up for a…
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The Best Of R.A. Lafferty (book review).
R.A. Lafferty aka Raphael Aloysius Lafferty or simply Ray Lafferty (1914-2002) has a lot of fans, hardly surprising when you see an introduction…
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The Midwich Cuckoos (2022) (DVD TV series review).
As I don’t watch the digital pay channels, bear in mind I have nothing to compare ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’ to other Sky Channel…
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Crashed starships & shipwrecked spacecraft: an interesting science fiction trope (video).
There are a lot of stories in science fiction, notes Issac Arthur, that include spaceships becoming damaged or crashing… but this actually happens…
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36th Arthur C. Clarke Award goes to author Harry Josephine Giles (award news).
The 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year has been announced. Said UK-based award for science fiction…
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special 2022 (Xmas special trailer).
Watch the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ Special Presentation: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, streaming November 25th 2022 on Disney+. Yes,…
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Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders book 1) by Mur Lafferty (book review).
People die around Mallory Viridian. They don’t drop dead of a heart attack or anything natural or accidental. They are murdered. Not by…
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Mongrel (short scifi film: in full).
Nik Kacevski brings us another of his thoughtful short science fiction films, Mongrel. The truth that Anna, a young misunderstood scientist, is losing…
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Dark Star, how the director John Carpenter’s first science fiction film led on to the creation of Alien (video).
Dan O’Bannon, the original Alien film screenwriter, collaborated with John Carpenter on a short scifi film called Dark Star that eventually became a…
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Living Memory by David Walton (book review).
‘Living Memory’ by David Walton is the first in a series of near future novels about maniraptorans, dinosaurs that are birds or closely…
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Hot Skull (Netflix science fiction TV series: trailer).
Hot Skull is a new Netflix science fiction TV series, which will be streaming on December 2nd, 2022. Murat is the only person…