Last Of The First: 26 (Saga Of Recluce book 26) by L.E. Modesitt (book review)
Don’t start here but don’t read the other twenty-five books first. While ‘Last Of The First’ is Book 26 of
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Digger: Tom Cruise breaks the world, then insists he can fix it (film: trailer).
The final trailer for Digger has landed. Alejandro G. Iñárritu directs Tom Cruise as the most powerful man alive, racing to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the catastrophe he started finishes the job. In cinemas and IMAX from 2 October.
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Mimeograph by Eira A. Ekre (book review).
‘Mimeograph’ by Eira A Ekre is a standalone Science Fiction novella. It does not fit neatly into any single sub-genre,
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Godzilla Minus Zero: the maths gets worse, the screen gets bigger (monster movie: trailer)
The full Godzilla Minus Zero trailer has landed. Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel is the first Japanese production ever Filmed For IMAX, it opens in November, and Toho would like you to believe that this time it really is the last one.
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George Lucas spends a billion dollars to win an argument, and the Lucas Museum finally opens (news).
After sixteen years, three cities, two civic rejections and roughly a billion dollars of his own money, George Lucas opens the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles on 22nd September. Frazetta hangs down the hall from Gentileschi, and Star Wars is only seven per cent of the floor space.
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Disney+ Digs Up The Kane Chronicles, And We Have Opinions About Who Should Play The Cat (TV news).
Netflix let The Kane Chronicles rot in development for four years. Now Disney+ has prised the lid off the sarcophagus, with Rick Riordan co-creating alongside Angela Robinson. Here is what we know, plus our entirely unsolicited fantasy casting.
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Donguri’s pull-back Ohmu keyrings: a small ecological uprising for your desk (merchandise).
Donguri’s pull-back Ohmu keyrings from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind come in calm blue and furious red, move at different speeds, and cost ¥2,200 each. Getting one out of Japan is the hard part.
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The Traveler by Joseph Eckert (book review).
The idea of time travel has been around for a very long time. Many readers will be familiar with H.G.
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Spider-Noir cancelled: Amazon shoots the goose, checks the spreadsheet, asks where the golden eggs went (news).
Prime Video has cancelled Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir after one season, roughly twenty minutes before the show turns up at the Emmys with eleven nominations. Streaming maths remains an eldritch discipline.
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Turn-based combat is back, and Space Engineers finally has someone to shoot at (genre gaming news roundup).
It has been a while since we last ran a proper genre gaming news roundup, largely because every time we sat down to write one, another publisher announced another thing with the word “Warhammer” in it and we had to start again.
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