First Men in the Moon (1964): Gin, Ray Guns, and Lunar bureaucracy in the Queen’s name.
Long before Neil Armstrong tiptoed across the Sea of Tranquility in monochrome, before Kubrick gave us pristine orbital ballet with
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Alter Ego #102 June 2011 (magazine review).
Roy Thomas’ editorial in this 2011 edition of ‘Alter Ego’ focuses on why film and TV companies only like a
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Doctor Who Season 2? Two companions, one TARDIS, and no idea what’s going on (article).
Hold onto your sonic screwdrivers and polish your fez collection because Doctor Who is back for another round of timey-wimey
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The Eternaut: it’s snow joke (Netflix scifi TV series).
Aliens. Snow. Existential despair. Truco. Welcome, dear reader, to The Eternaut, Netflix’s latest attempt to introduce the world to a
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We Are Not Anonymous by Stephen Oram (book review).
‘We Are Not Anonymous’ by Stephen Oram is a science fiction novel about the possible near future set in Great
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Trancers (1984) (classic film review).
‘Trancers’ is one of my favourite films. I’m still planning to watch the rest of the films in the series.
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No Step Climb: a short story by GF Willmetts.
The plan seemed straight forward enough. This was the third extra-solar long rock, Big M, passing near enough Earth to
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Watch The Skies (scifi/horror film: trailer).
Watch the Skies (2025) crash-lands into the sci-fi landscape like a saucer-shaped curveball from the outer reaches of teen drama
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Alter Ego #30 November 2003 (magazine review).
When ‘Alter Egos’ appears on the auction website, I typically review a few details from my checklist: do I already
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Doctor Who: The Complete Third Series (DVD TV series extras review).
The year 2007 feels like a distant memory. It is for some. As I reviewed the episodes when they first
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