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Reality Rift (dark Shepherd book 2) by Fred Gambino (book review).
Many SFCrowsnest readers will, I imagine, be aware of Fred Gambino’s work as a freelance science fiction artist. Starting as an illustrator of…
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ReviewScifi
Lexx: The Complete Series (DVD TV review).
Everyone seems to forget Lexx’. The first season is of 4 * 90-minute episodes, which might not be convenient for TV but goes…
ReviewScifi
All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu (book review).
With the increased use of technology in our lives, it is inevitable that there will be those, often stereotyped as teenagers, sitting in…
ReviewDoctor Who
The War Between The Land And The Sea episode 5 by Russell T Davies (TV review).
Episode 5: The End Of The War by Russell T Davies So here we are for the fifth and last episode. Be careful…
ReviewBooks
Enshitification by Cory Doctorow (book review).
I have to confess that until this book by Cory Doctorow, I’d never come across its title word, ‘enshitification’, despite the fact that…
ReviewFantasy
Queen Demon (The Rising World book 2) by Martha Wells (book review).
After casting down the conspiracy to make prince-heir Bashat emperor, the coalition of the Rising World meets once more. Kaiisteron, Fourth Prince of…
ReviewCulture
Retro Fan #39 July 2025 (magazine review).
This edition of ‘Retro Fan’ has its usual mixture and from different perspectives. Writer Mark Voger has a look at writer-director (said under…
ReviewFantasy
The Burning Land (Talmont book 1) by David Hair (book review).
‘The Burning Land’ is the first volume in ‘The Talmont Trilogy’, an epic fantasy series set in the world of Coros. It was…
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Make-Believe And Artifice (Polestars 11) by Rose Biggin (book review).
Many of us admit to having imaginary friends when we were young, and most children play at make-believe. It is their way of…
ReviewDoctor Who
The War Between The Land And The Sea episodes 3 & 4 by Pete McTighe (TV review).
Thank you for your patience. I split some lemonade over the laptop keyboard, mopped it up and rebooted, and the screen played up.…
ReviewIllustration
Illustrators #49 (magazine review).
There are some times with the ‘Illustrators’ magazine that some of the artists selected are just jaw-droppingly awesome. This is the case with…
ReviewScifi
What Not: A Prophetic Comedy by Rose Macaulay (book review).
‘What Not: A Prophetic Comedy’ was written towards the end of World War One, or the Great War, as it was called then.…