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CenterForce by T.A. Waters (book review).
CenterForce by T.A. Waters is a book I ended up with in a multiple-bought selection, and I pulled it out at random by…
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The Hidden Hand: a short story by GF Willmetts.
‘Hello, Alfred.’ ‘Hello, Cathlynn. How are you today?’ ‘I’m fine. Could be I’m on a winning streak.’ She looked around the casino. The…
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Back Issue #167 June 2026 (magazine review).
This issue of Back Issue is sub-titled Girls, Women And Ladies, using examples of female characters with those words in their names. Obviously,…
ReviewBooks
The Ghost City: A Thriller by Ryan Pote (book review).
Ethan Cain is working on the Mekong River in Vietnam when the river level suddenly drops and changes course. While this is an…
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How To Build A Time Machine by Paul Davies (book review).
I had heard of Paul Davies’ How To Build A Time Machine years ago, but Mark Brake’s The Science Of Science Fiction drew…
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Metro 2035 by Dimitri Glukhovsy (book review).
Metro 2035 is the third book in a series about forty thousand survivors of a nuclear war who live and work underground in…
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Killjoys: Complete Seasons 1-5 (TV series review).
The Reclamation Apprehension Coalition, or RAC, whose members are better known as the Killjoys, are teams of bounty hunters who pick up contracts…
ReviewComics
Secret Six: The Darkest House by Gail Simone and J. Calafiore (graphic novel review).
Secret Six: The Darkest House is essentially a duplicate of part of the later fourth collected volume, reprinting Secret Six #30-36 and Doom…
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Secret Six: Depths by Gail Simone, Nicola Scottt, Carlos Rodriguez and Doug Hazlewood (graphic novel review).
There were two extra collected volumes of Gail Simone’s Secret Six run, and Depths collects material from Secret Six #8-14. Quite why these…
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The Recollections: Fragments From A Life In Writing by Christopher Priest (book review).
Christopher Priest died at 80 in 2024. This is a collection of his non-fiction pieces, assembled and introduced by his third wife, novelist…
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The Science Of Science Fiction by Mark Brake (book review).
The Science Of Science Fiction by Mark Brake has the sub-title The Influence Of Film And Fiction On The Science And Culture Of…
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Cherry 2000 (1987) (film review).
You know the usual romance story. A man goes home to his wife, she short-circuits and crashes. That’s the problem with having a…