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Starter Villain by John Scalzi (book review).
Charlie Fitzer is a substitute teacher living in his dead father’s house in the town he grew up in. His only friend is…
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Blood Child And Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
In the introduction to ‘Blood Child And Other Stories’, Octavia E. Butler admits to not favoring the craft of short story writing, primarily…
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Eclectic Dreams: A Milford Anthology edited by J W Anderson, Pete W. Sutton & Liz Williams (book review).
I have to declare and interest. I have been an attendee at the Milford SF Workshop on a number of occasions. For those…
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The Creator: a riveting tale of A.I., ethics, and humanity (Mark Kermode film review).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, is here to bring you his film review of the original new science fiction production, The…
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The Circumference Of The World By Lavie Tidhar (book review).
‘The Circumference Of The World’ by Lavie Tidhar is a standalone Science Fiction novel that includes many sub-genres such as alternative history, space…
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The City Of Bones by Martha Wells (book review).
The city of Charisat rises above the desolate emptiness of the Waste, a volcanic desert occupied only by poisonous animals and the strange…
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Universal Language: The Airlocked Room Mystery by Tim Major (book review).
‘Universal Language: The Airlocked Room Mystery’ is a Science Fiction novella by Tim Major who has published six plus novels as well as…
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The Red Scholar’s Wake/Some Love Transcends All Barriers by Aliette de Bodard (book review).
‘The Red Scholar’s Wake’ is a standalone novel by Aliette de Bodard, and is notable as a space opera written by an award-winning…
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Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview And Other Conversations (book review).
Of the 28 books in this ‘Last Interview’ series, only 4 other people belong to our genre and Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) is…
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Death’s sabbatical: why characters can’t stay six feet under (article: video).
The modern cinema landscape, where mortality is as flexible as a contortionist at a circus. Remember the good old days when the Grim…
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Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (trailer: video).
You may want to sit down for this one—preferably on a seat cushioned by all those fan theories you’ve been knitting about the…
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What Happened To Monday? (2017) (film review).
In a future where families are allowed only one child, Terrance Settman, played by Willem Dafoe, finds himself the grandfather of seven siblings.…