Back Issue #166 April 2026 (magazine review).
The subtitle of this 166th edition of Back Issue is ‘Partner Up!’, focusing on various comic book partnerships, although not
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Vought Rising trailer arrives to remind us superheroes were awful long before social media (video).
There are few things more comforting in modern television than discovering that humanity has always been dreadful. Not just ordinary
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The Mandalorian And Grogu: Mark Kermode scifi film review (video).
There was a time when a new Star Wars film arriving on the big screen felt like the second
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Who Goes Here? by Bob Shaw (book review).
In 2386, the Space Legion recruits people who want to forget their pasts. The process is wonderfully simple: sign up
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Lanterns: second trailer, True Detective, but with space cops and mood lighting (HBO TV series).
The second trailer for HBO’s Lanterns has arrived, and yes, before the internet is forced to form another emergency committee,
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Early Del Rey by Lester Del Rey (book review).
The Early Del Rey is another substantial volume in Doubleday’s series collecting the formative works of Golden Age science fiction
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Alter Ego #198 March 2026 (magazine review).
As you can probably tell from the cover of this issue of Alter Ego, the main feature is a detailed
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Woman Alive by Susan Ertz (book review).
In Woman Alive, Doctor Selwyn, a man, is mentally transported from 1935 to 1985, where he inhabits the consciousness of
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Stuart Fails To Save The Universe (Big Bang spin-off TV series: trailer).
There are spin-offs, there are cash-ins, and then there are spin-offs that appear to have escaped from a CERN laboratory
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A Sense Of Wonder by John Wyndham, Murray Leinster and Jack Williamson (book review).
When you look at the cover of this fifth reprint of the book, the title, A Sense Of Wonder, is
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