ReviewBooks
Star Wars: Choice Of One by Timothy Zahn (book review).
This reviewer has a confession to make: it has probably been at least thirty years since I read a `genre’ novel. Leaving aside…
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Painting Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler (book review).
I picked up Everett Raymond Kinstler’s book ‘Painting Portraits’ a few years ago. Since I’m considering painting a portrait and have several unread…
ReviewFantasy
Dissonance Of Bird Song by Alexandra Beaumont (book review).
Cornwall is a magical county to visit, and it has generated a huge number of folkloric myths and legends. Alexandra Beaumont has taken…
NewsScifi
War of the Worlds (2005), a classic science fiction film retrospective (video).
In 2005, a cinematic thunderstorm rolled into theatres, leaving audiences drenched in their own sweat and confusion. Steven Spielberg, the man who made…
ReviewBooks
Ladies: Retold Tales Of Goddesses And Heroines by Boris Vallejo and Doris Vallejo (book review).
If you think you’ve got all of the Boris Vallejo books, then you might have missed this one from 1999, ‘Ladies: Retold Tales…
ReviewScifi
The Mechanics Of Memory by Audrey Lee (book review).
‘The Mechanics of Memory’ by Audrey Lee is a technological thriller rather than a science fiction novel. It’s set more or less in…
NewsCons
So That Was WorldCon 2024? A convention review by Rosie Oliver.
Another WorldCon has come and gone, but Glasgow 2024 will be remembered for many good things. Membership was high, exceeding 8,000, with over…
TrailerScifi
Y2K—the Apocalypse movie you didn’t know you needed (trailer).
Just when you thought the Y2K panic of 1999 was nothing more than a nostalgic punchline, along comes Kyle Mooney’s Y2K, a disaster…
ReviewHorror
Terror Firma (2023) (blu-ray film review)
Artist Lola (actress Faye Tamasa) finds a bag of seed on her doorstep which gives birth to an alien plant as it…
ReviewComics
Batman: Volume 10: Epilogue [The New 52] by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Greg Capullo, Roge Antonio, Aco and Riley Rossmo (graphic novel review)
The final volume of Batman in the New 52 comprises of Batman #51-52; Batman Futures End # 1; Batman Annual # 4 and…
ReviewMagazines
Comic Book Artist # 12 March 2001 (magazine review)
As can be seen from this edition of ‘Comic Book Artist’ from 2001, the subject is ‘Charlton Comics Of The 1970s’. Even in…
ReviewScifi
Deep Space (2016) (film review)
The opening introduction to the 2016 film ‘Deep Space’, previously called ‘Teleois’, reveals the history of GC humans, genetically superior humans who are…