NewsScifi
Larry Niven: Ringworlds, Puppeteers, and the joy of indestructible Monomolecular Wires (interview).
There are few authors in science fiction who have managed to blend hard science with outright insanity quite as well as Larry Niven,…
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January 2025
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MindStep: a Psi-Kicks story by GF Willmetts.
The last place Sara Seeker, Sheena Ramone and Courtney Adams expected to turn up was a private hospital ward in a general hospital…
NewsKit
Problems With Multiple DVD Recorders: an article by GF Willmetts.
This was originally going to be in the Observations section of the editorial, but as it got ever lengthy, I decided it…
NewsHorror
Nosferatu: Mark Kermode’s horror film review (2024).
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is here, finally materialising after nearly a decade of gestation. Like the Count himself, it’s risen from development hell to…
December 2024
NewsComics
Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth (graphic novel).
What attracted me to this book, ‘Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth,’ is the Alex Ross cover. The book contains 14 stories spanning from 1943…
NewsDoctor Who
Doctor Who season 2, episode 1: Joy To The World by Steven Moffat.
Is there such a thing as a time hotel? It looks like these days every advanced alien race has a means to time…
NewsMagazines
Comic Book Creator #36 Fall 2024.
This autumn issue of ‘Comic Book Creator’ offers a wealth of content, so I’ll have to selectively highlight some of them. Let’s start…
NewsScifi
Invasion Of The Star Creatures (1962).
From the start of this 1962 film, ‘Invasion Of The Star Creatures,’ this is an obvious SF comedy with washed-out soldiers, Privates Philbrick…
NewsBooks
A Truth Beyond Full – Book Launching: an article by Rosie Oliver.
The Novel Being Published! My novel, ‘A Truth Beyond Full,’ had been written, accepted by Elsewhen Press, edited, cover designed by Alex Storer,…
NewsShort fiction
MirrorStep: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.
‘You didn’t give your name?’ ‘I didn’t. Call me Jones.’ ‘First name?’ ‘Mister.’ The detective looked at the light-haired man, who smiled back.…
NewsFilms
Damnation Alley: the movie that Lost to Star Wars before it even started (film retrospective).
Damnation Alley (1977)—that peculiar love letter to post-apocalyptic survival, roaring vehicles, and questionable screenwriting. If you’ve never seen it, congratulations; you’ve either dodged…
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Star Cadets on Space Patrol (short scifi movie: in full).
In a galaxy where psychic cats hold all the secrets of the cosmos and sentient pickle people are just trying to live their…