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The Encyclopaedia Of Science Fiction Movies by Phil Hardy (book review).
The challenge in compiling an encyclopaedia of science fiction films today is the sheer volume of new releases each year, making it impossible…
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December 2024
July 2024
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Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart (book review).
The title of Patrick Stewart’s autobiography, Making It So: A Memoir, aims squarely at Star Trek fans, but there are no Star Trek…
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The Alien Quartet: Bloomsbury Movie Guide No. 4 by David Thomson (book review).
The Alien Quartet: Bloomsbury Movie Guide No. 4 by David Thomson is the book referenced by Roz Kaveney in her work From Alien…
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The Making Of King Kong by George E. Turner and Dr. Orville Goldmer expanded by Michael W. Price (book review)
The 262 page number tends to ignore the 31 pages of various introductions, including ones by Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen covering previous…
June 2024
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From Alien To The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film by Roz Kaveney (book review).
I picked up a small pile of books about SF a couple years ago and am slowly working my way through them. In…
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Moonwatcher’s Memoir, a Diary of 2001 A Space Odyssey, by Dan Richter (book review).
One of the things about reading books is that they sometimes point to other books that need attention. Before you ask, I don’t…
May 2024
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Industrial Light & Magic: Into The Digital Realm by Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan (book review).
I hadn’t previously come across ‘Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm’ by Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan, but I…
April 2024
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Space Odyssey by Michael Benson (book review).
I’ve been sitting on a couple books about the 1968 film ‘’2001: A Space Odyssey’ for some time now. While the SF book…
March 2024
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The Art Of Film by Terry Ackland-Snow with Wendy Laybourne (book review).
If you want to look at a pile of books and pick out something for immediate attention, then it’s a film book with…
February 2024
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Terminator Vault by Ian Nathan (book review).
Author Ian Nathan wrote ‘Terminator Vault’ before ‘Alien Vault’. Getting hold of a copy cheaply is not easy, but some are now appearing…
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Alien Vault by Ian Nathan (book review).
Did I mention I was missing two ‘Alien’ books? This is the other one. At the time, the abundance of books we had…
January 2024
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Warner Bros.: Hollywood’s Ultimate Backlot by Steven Bingen with Marc Wanamaker and Bison Archives (book review).
A long while back, someone recommended that I should look at the book, Warner Bros.: Hollywood’s Ultimate Backlot by Steven Bingen with Marc…