NewsScifi
The Kitchen: we’re cooking up a new scifi movie review.
The London Film Festival wrapped up recently, and they chose to conclude with something local, yet dystopian — The Kitchen, a brainchild of…
The SFcrowsnest archive
Scifi
Science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.
October 2023
ReviewScifi
The Creator: a voyage through ambition, robots, and existentialism (film review).
It’s always a bit of a heartache when original films, bursting with potential, don’t quite live up to the box office expectations. The…
NewsScifi
Predator’s Production Hell: how grueling challenges created a Sci-Fi classic (video).
Predator. The very name conjures up memories of tense jungle showdowns, cloaked extraterrestrial hunters, and one of the most iconic catchphrases of the…
FeatureScifi
Escape From New York: a look back at a dystopian film classic (article).
Here’s the commentary by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell on their dystopian scifi film classic, Escape From New York. What the heck was…
TrailerScifi
Scavengers Reign: where surreal meets offworld survival (scifi animated TV series: trailer).
If you were ever curious about what would happen if you mixed a Moebius comic, a touch of Akira, and a dash of…
ReviewScifi
Smuggler’s Guilt (Reese Daniels Smuggler series book 2) by T.D. Wilson (book review).
Reese Daniels might not want to be a hero but in the second novella in the T.D. Wilson’s series chronicling the smuggler’s adventures,…
ReviewScifi
Starter Villain by John Scalzi (book review).
‘Starter Villain’ by John Scalzi is a standalone near-future science fiction action thriller with a significant dose of humour. Former journalist Charlie Fitzer…
ReviewScifi
The Artificial Man And Other Stories by Clare Winger Harris (book review).
As I recently noted in another review, Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968) was the first female science fiction author to sell stories under her…
NewsScifi
Neo’s Cleaning Service (short science fiction film: full video).
Neo’s Cleaning Service by McFloyd Nguyen is a speculative plunge into a dystopian vortex where cleaning is not merely about sparkling floors and…
NewsScifi
Season Of Skulls (book 3 of The New Management, a Laundry Files novel, book 12) by Charles Stross.
It’s not often I start a book review with an apology, but I do now. In my review of the ‘Quantum Of Nightmares’,…
ReviewScifi
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2023, Volume 145 #768 (magazine review).
There was a time when it was common to note the number of recurring authors that appeared in magazines. Admittedly, there were fewer…
ReviewScifi
Androne by Dwain Worrell (book review).
In short, ‘Androne’ is a pretty darn good for a first novel. Set in the near future, Dwain Worrell imagines a world where…