ReviewScifi
This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour (book review).
Sweetmint has followed the rules of the Northwestern Hemisphere all her life. As a young, invisible woman, she must adhere to numerous rules.…
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July 2024
ReviewHorror
The Dulwich Horror & Others by David Hambling (book review).
I’d only recently come across David Hambling via his entry in a collection of stories, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, featuring Lovecraft himself…
ReviewHorror
The Elder Ice (A Harry Stubbs Adventures) by David Hambling (book review).
I really enjoyed this! As stories go, this was something like a mix between a ‘Call of Cthulhu’ game and an episode of…
June 2024
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #49 June 2005 (magazine review).
As you should be able to tell from the cover of the 49th Alter Ego, this issue is primarily about the original Human…
ReviewScifi
Cageworld No 2: The Lost Worlds Of Cronus by Colin Kapp (book review).
Back to Solaria, or what was left of our star system when the AI Zeus turned it into a set of Dyson spheres…
ReviewComics
Batman: Volume 6: Graveyard Shift [The New 52] by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (graphic novel review).
The opening announcement at the beginning of this sixth volume, which states that the stories within are from different times in Batman’s career…
ReviewMovie books
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…
ReviewComics
Alter Ego #39 August 2004 (magazine review).
This early issue of Alter Ego is devoted to comic book artist/writer Jerry Robinson (1922-2011) and features a two-part interview, spanning around 60…
ReviewScifi
Russian Doll seasons 1-2 (blu-ray TV series review).
Russian Doll could have easily ground to a halt. After leaving her own 36th birthday party, computer programmer Nadia Vulvokov (played by Natasha…
ReviewBooks
Mislaid In Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children book 9) by Seanan McGuire (book review)
There can’t be many children who, at one time or another, haven’t imagined a world that is ideal for them. It could be…
ReviewFantasy
Tidal Creatures (Alchemical Journeys book 3) by Seanan McGuire (book review).
The Impossible City exists just beyond everything. It is a place that isn’t a place, architecture that isn’t really there, yet it is…
ReviewBooks
Science Fiction Illustration edited by Yuka Tsutsui (book review).
I picked up Science Fiction Illustration last year, as I’m a sucker for artbooks, and this one is only three years old. Its…