True Names And The Opening Of The Cyberscience Frontier by Vernor Vinge (book review).
A quick spin through the opening credits of this book, True Names And The Opening Of The Cyberspace Frontier, reveals
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Mayday: new Netflix spy-fy comedy movie (trailer).
Apple TV has released the first trailer for Mayday, a Cold War action comedy in which Ryan Reynolds crash-lands inside
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The Champions return: secret agents, superpowers and a Himalayan detour (documentary: video in full).
If your idea of a civilised evening involves superhuman secret agents, Himalayan weirdness, 1960s ITC glamour and villains who probably
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The full title of Catherine Németh Fraumerman’s booklet, ‘On The Trail Of The Prisoner’, includes the subtitle ‘A Walking Guide
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Project: The Prisoner: The Village Technical Manual by Tim Palgut (book review).
Very occasionally, I take a look around to see what ‘The Prisoner’ fandom is producing. Hence, coming across this softcover,
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London Rules (Slough House book 5) by Mick Herron (book review).
In the build-up in ‘London Rules’ by Mick Herron, you could also miss the significance of Roddy Ho being nearly
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Spook Street (Slough House book 4) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unusual for a ‘Slough House’ thriller, Jackson Lamb is missing from the first third of this book, ‘Spook Street’. Instead,
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Real Tigers (Slough House book 3) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unravelling the opening sequence of the third ‘Slough House’ book, ‘Real Tigers’, involves many threads, with the first one not
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Dead Lions (Slough House thrillers book 2) by Mick Herron (book review).
An ex-streetwalker, Richard Bough, aka Dickie Bow, spots a Russian spook in London and pursues him out to Oxford; along
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Slow Horses (Slough House Thrillers book 1) by Mick Herron (book review).
I’ve seen the ‘Slow Horses’ TV series on DVD and thought it was about time I looked at the books,
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