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The Orville: New Horizons (TV series review).
The Orville: New Horizons has at last hit the small screen. But has this rather interesting slice of TV scifi outgrown its Star…
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Science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.
June 2022
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2022, Volume 142 #760 (magazine review).
The joy of magazines such as this is the range of stories and writers that are included. In this particular issue of ‘The…
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Professor Challenger: The Island Of Terror by William Meikle (e-book review).
Many well-known old characters have fallen from copyright into the public domain so anyone can write stories about them. Professor Challenger is perhaps…
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Cuckoo, Cuckoo: The Midwich Cuckoos, Mark Kermode’s take (TV review).
Mark Kermode reviews David Farr’s science fiction and horror television drama The Midwich Cuckoos, which is based on the novel of the same…
May 2022
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Masters Of Time by A.E. Van Vogt (book review).
The one thing about getting SF books from the 1970s is they had some fabulous covers to make you give them a second…
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Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics Of The 1950s by Dennis Saleh (book review).
Looking at Dennis Saleh’s other books, record album covers and poetry, ‘Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics Of The 1950s’ certainly comes out of…
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The Beast by AE Van Vogt (book review).
The indicia to ‘The Beast’ by AE Van Vogt indicates this is the second issue, the first in 1964, although there is no…
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Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott (book review).
Science Fiction has always reflected the concerns of the authors at the time of writing. When the possibility of a nuclear war was…
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Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
Alastair Reynolds was a little-known contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Dafoe. His only novel of note was the seagoing adventure ‘Eversion’, which…
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The Best Of Greg Egan by Greg Egan (book review).
The Best Of Greg Egan’ by Greg Egan is a collection of what he considers his twenty best Science Fiction short stories, novelettes…
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Escape From Yokai Land (a Laundry Files novella) by Charles Stross (book review).
What we have here is an 81 page novella from Charles Stross which explains in some respect Bob Howard’s absence from books 6…
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Everything Everywhere All At Once (scifi film review).
Whoa, who would have guessed that we are still capable of producing movies that are witty, clever, incredibly innovative, and emotionally gratifying, with…