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The All-Star Companion edited by Roy Thomas (book review).
Getting early TwoMorrows books is problematic. Like their magazines, they carry the history of mostly American comicbooks and those who buy them tend…
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Vital Signals: Virtual Futures, Near-Future Fictions edited by Dan O’Hara, Tom Ward & Stephen Oram (book review).
‘Vital Signals’ has thirty stories in two hundred pages, so that’s about six pages per yarn, but it’s a bit less because there’s…
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Dracula: A Love Tale – Luc Besson stakes a claim on gothic romance (trailer).
Just when you thought Dracula adaptations had exhausted every possible angle—murderous, romantic, sparkling, kung-fu-fighting—Luc Besson swoops in from a snow-dusted Finnish forest to…
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Alien: Earth – Weyland-Yutani’s Worst Idea Yet Comes Home to Roost (trailer).
In space, no one can hear you scream. But on Earth, they apparently still think it’s a good idea to poke mysterious crashed…
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Strange New Worlds S3: Genre-hopping boldly into chaos, comedy and cosmic murder (trailer).
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the series that dares to ask, “What if we made Star Trek fun again, but with hair mousse…
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Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries book 4) by Martha Wells (book review).
‘Exit Strategy’ by Martha Wells is the fourth novella in the Science Fiction ‘Murderbot Diaries’ series, which currently comprises five novellas, two novels…
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Rowany de Vere And A Fair Degree Of Frost by Chaz Benchley (book review).
Rowany de Vere is a secret agent working for the Colonial Service in the British Empire’s Mars colony. ‘It was the second Christmas…
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Squid Game 3: Blood, Betrayal, and a Big Plastic Boyfriend (trailer).
The final chapter of Squid Game is nearly upon us, and if you thought the first two seasons had wrung the last drop…
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Gen V: back to school and primed for carnage? (season 2 trailer)
Sharpen your pencils and don your capes, because Gen V is heading back to class—and this time, it’s less “university hijinks” and more…
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Editorial – June 2025: Traditional SF.
Hello everyone, Reflecting on last month’s editorial, I had to have a think about my term ‘traditional science fiction’. Was it ‘traditional’, and…
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First Rule: a short proclamation by GF Willmetts on behalf of your new world (flash fiction).
Greetings. I have been selected to be your world leader. You may think you have voted for other nominees, but the result won’t…
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Alter Ego #113 October 2012 (magazine review).
In his editorial to this 2012 edition of ‘Alter Ego’, Roy Thomas points out that he only touches on comic book creators whose…