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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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