ReviewFilms
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Mark Kermode’s superhero film review).
That marvellous man-of-many-movies, Mark Kermode, is back once more – freed now from the shackles of the BBC – to tell us what…
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ReviewAnime/manga
Inukami! Omnibus Collection 1 by Mamizu Arisawa and Mari Matsuzawa (graphic novel review).
Kami are the spirits of Japanese folklore and an inukami, in particular, a dog-spirit that features in this manga series is called Yoko,…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Strange: The Book Of The Vishanti by Matthew K. Manning (book review).
Don’t expect everything to be normal about ‘Doctor Strange: The Book Of The Vishanti’. The initial surprise was having none of the original…
ReviewFilms
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (superhero movie: film review).
CD is here to bring us his take on the Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness superhero movie. Now that he’s watched…
ReviewScifi
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (book review).
It is only from the introduction by Ken Macleod that I learn that after Vernor Vinge wrote ‘A Fire Upon The Deep’ (1991),…
ReviewFantasy
Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys book 2) by Seanan McGuire (book review).
Once upon a time Summer and Winter found human shapes and found that they liked them. Human belief gave them shape and blood…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #32 February 2008 (magazine review).
My search for early issues of ‘Back Issue’ finally accomplished with this 2008 edition. Not being able to see the small print, I…
ReviewScifi
Future Science Fiction Digest #14 (e-mag review).
Future Science Fiction Digest #14 features stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, China and Cuba. Quite how united those first…
ReviewBooks
Star Wars: Millennium Falcon by James Luceno (book review).
Writing a novel about a spaceship, albeit one as famous as the YT-1300 freighter ‘Millennium Falcon’ might seem a strange idea, but James…
ReviewScifi
The Tomorrow People by Judith Merril (book review).
Judith Merril’s 1960 book ‘The Tomorrow People’ is set in 1976 and probably felt a long way off at the time. The space…
ReviewScifi
Shadow On The Heath by Judith Merril (book review).
Locating Judith Merril’s ‘Shadow On The Heath’ by Judith Merril took a little longer and pre-dates her two novels with C.M. Kornbluth. I…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: Stranded 4 by Lisa McMullin, Matt Fitton, John Dorney and Roy Gill (CD story review).
Crossed Lines by Matt Fitton If you like your Doctor with added timey-wimey and esoteric hoo-ha this will get you salivating. As the…