God’s Vengeance by Theresa Derwin (book review).
One of the dilemmas any author faces is how long a work should be. Some mentors will tell them to
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Rogue Trooper trailer: Duncan Jones drags 2000 AD’s blue soldier to the BFI London Film Festival (trailer).
The Rogue Trooper trailer has arrived, and Duncan Jones has finally dragged 2000 AD’s blue-skinned killing machine onto a screen, with three BFI London Film Festival screenings in October.
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An Upset at the Hugos, a Sequel Thirteen Years Late, and a Reaper Who Can’t Keep Still (news roundup).
Three weeks of genre news in one go: a Hugo Awards upset in Anaheim, John Crowley’s death, T. Kingfisher’s suspiciously perfect publicity timing, and television quietly running out of books to adapt.
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Fortitude trailer: Nicolas Cage plays the man who accidentally invented James Bond (trailer).
Every so often a film turns up that is neither science fiction nor fantasy, and yet lands squarely in the SFcrowsnest in-tray on the grounds that without it we would have no volcano lairs and no laser wristwatches.
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Dune Part Three new trailer lands and the messiah business is going badly (trailer).
A new Dune Part Three trailer has landed, which means Warner Bros. is now rationing Arrakis footage with roughly the same generosity the Spacing Guild applies to spice.
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Harry Potter second teaser summons Hogwarts back for Christmas (trailer).
The Harry Potter second teaser has arrived from HBO, and with it eight episodes of Philosopher’s Stone, a cast list roughly the length of the Yellow Pages, and a Christmas 2026 date that Warner Bros. Discovery has almost certainly had circled in red since about 2023.
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Thrill-power interrupted: the printer that printed 2000AD has gone bust
The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic has been felled not by the Dark Judges, not by a Sov nuke, but by a web offset press in Telford running out of paper. Precision Colour Printing, which has printed 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine since 2007, has gone into administration — and Rebellion has scrambled to keep the Thrill-power flowing.
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Survivor by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
Octavia Butler wrote five Patternist novels. The earlier books explore the long history that eventually leads to the Patternist society,
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Scion by James Islington (book review).
‘Scion’ by James Islington is standalone Science Fiction thriller. Azure is an enhanced human with revs, cogs and somatics, one
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Ghost Soldier: Jim Caviezel shows the perils of annoying the Quiet Bloke in the Woods (trailer).
If the trailer for Ghost Soldier is sitting above this article, you will already have gathered that a large corporation
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