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Animals by Geoff Ryman (book review).
‘Animals’ by Geoff Ryman is a horror novel and a family story with a large degree of anthropomorphism in it. The anthropomorphism in…
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June 2025
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Stingray W.A.S.P. Technical Operations Manual by Chris Thompson & Andrew Clements (book review).
Now, read instructions: Read alone and be very suspicious of anyone sounding like actor Peter Lorre at your door telling you that your…
ReviewScifi
Fiasco (Uncharted Hearts 2) by Constance Fay (book review).
For most, the term ‘Romantasy’ will probably conjure up images of sexy vampires or werewolves in an urban fantasy setting seductively courting humans,…
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The All-Star Companion edited by Roy Thomas (book review).
Getting early TwoMorrows books is problematic. Like their magazines, they carry the history of mostly American comicbooks and those who buy them tend…
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Vital Signals: Virtual Futures, Near-Future Fictions edited by Dan O’Hara, Tom Ward & Stephen Oram (book review).
‘Vital Signals’ has thirty stories in two hundred pages, so that’s about six pages per yarn, but it’s a bit less because there’s…
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Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries book 4) by Martha Wells (book review).
‘Exit Strategy’ by Martha Wells is the fourth novella in the Science Fiction ‘Murderbot Diaries’ series, which currently comprises five novellas, two novels…
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Rowany de Vere And A Fair Degree Of Frost by Chaz Benchley (book review).
Rowany de Vere is a secret agent working for the Colonial Service in the British Empire’s Mars colony. ‘It was the second Christmas…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #113 October 2012 (magazine review).
In his editorial to this 2012 edition of ‘Alter Ego’, Roy Thomas points out that he only touches on comic book creators whose…
May 2025
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #112 August 2012 (magazine review).
The cover of this 2012 edition of ‘Alter Ego’ shows how DC editor Mort Weisinger coerced the Man of Steel and his alter…
ReviewBooks
JMB, The Unseen Art Of John M. Burns: A Surfeit Of Assassins 1888 by John Dakin (graphic novel review).
In his introduction to this rather long titled ‘JMB: The Unseen Art Of John M. Burns: A Surfeit Of Assassins 1888’, author John…
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The Rocketeer Deluxe: The Complete Adventures by Dave Stevens (graphic novel review).
Finally, I’ve collected all the stories from Dave Stevens’ ‘The Rocketeer’. Actually, there are only two multi-parter stories. Set in the later 1930s,…
ReviewScifi
Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries book 3) by Martha Wells (book review).
‘Rogue Protocol’ by Martha Wells is the third novella in the science fiction ‘Murderbot Diaries’ series, which currently comprises five novellas, two novels…