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Robot Dreams (2023): Mark Kermode’s animated scifi move review (video).
Picture it: New York City, 1984. No internet, no smartphones, and most definitely no dating apps. So, what does a lonely Dog do?…
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September 2024
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Darkome (book 1) by Hannu Rajaniemi (book review).
The year is 2038, and the Darkome of the book title refers to a place where illegal genetic manipulation is carried out. The…
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When in Ancient Rome… Just invent the Steam Engine already! (article)
Welcome to this deep dive into whether ancient Rome was just a toga party away from sparking its very own Industrial Revolution back…
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The Slow Burn of Society’s Downfall (video).
So, the slow collapse film genre—a cinematic subcategory that’s less about the explosion-filled, adrenaline-pumping chaos of “Mad Max” and more about watching society…
August 2024
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Off Centre by Damon Knight (book review).
It looks like I’m breaking my own rule of reading successive books by the same author. Unlike the previous Damon Knight books, this…
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War of the Worlds (2005), a classic science fiction film retrospective (video).
In 2005, a cinematic thunderstorm rolled into theatres, leaving audiences drenched in their own sweat and confusion. Steven Spielberg, the man who made…
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The Mechanics Of Memory by Audrey Lee (book review).
‘The Mechanics of Memory’ by Audrey Lee is a technological thriller rather than a science fiction novel. It’s set more or less in…
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Y2K—the Apocalypse movie you didn’t know you needed (trailer).
Just when you thought the Y2K panic of 1999 was nothing more than a nostalgic punchline, along comes Kyle Mooney’s Y2K, a disaster…
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Deep Space (2016) (film review)
The opening introduction to the 2016 film ‘Deep Space’, previously called ‘Teleois’, reveals the history of GC humans, genetically superior humans who are…
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Earth by Ben Bova (book review)
Ben Bova should not need much introduction to SF fans. Bova has won the Hugo Awards no less than six times and has…
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Beyond The Barrier by Damon Knight (book review)
For those Brits old enough to remember, back in the late 1960s, our libraries released pamphlets of required reading in the various genres,…
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The Games by Ted Kosmatka (book review)
‘The Games’ was the first novel by prolific short form author Ted Kosmatka. First novels are always interesting. Will this author make mistakes…