ReviewScifi
Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley (book review).
At the end of each monthly meeting of the rangers overseeing the reserves around the Blackwater Estuary, there is a ceremony called the…
The SFcrowsnest archive
MEDIA
Select your art.
July 2026
ReviewScifi
The Hour Of The Phoenix by Richard Saxon (book review).
Firstly, there are a lot of Richard Saxons out there now. The author of The Hour Of The Phoenix appears to have been…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #7 December 2004 (magazine review).
I managed to get the seventh issue of Back Issue recently, which specialised in super-teams. One thing I’ve been careful about is keeping…
ReviewScifi
SOULM8TE: When your A.I. girlfriend updates her Terms And Conditions with a boiled bunny (film review)
SOULM8TE, pronounced Soulmate because apparently even murder-bots need branding consultants, is the latest offshoot from the M3GAN universe, arriving on digital platforms from…
ReviewScifi
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (book review).
‘Earth Abides’ by George R. Stewart (1895-1980) is only one of two SF book that he wrote. It was originally released in 1949…
ReviewCri-Fi
A Century Of Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy by Tony Lee Moral (book review).
It goes without saying that Alfred Hitchcock is still famous today as one of the masters of cinema. Films such as Vertigo, North…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #71 August 2007 (magazine review).
Despite having Captain Canuck, Vindicator and Wolverine on the cover of this 2007 edition of Alter Ego, the cover design is a reinvention…
ReviewScifi
CenterForce by T.A. Waters (book review).
CenterForce by T.A. Waters is a book I ended up with in a multiple-bought selection, and I pulled it out at random by…
June 2026
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #167 June 2026 (magazine review).
This issue of Back Issue is sub-titled Girls, Women And Ladies, using examples of female characters with those words in their names. Obviously,…
ReviewBooks
The Ghost City: A Thriller by Ryan Pote (book review).
Ethan Cain is working on the Mekong River in Vietnam when the river level suddenly drops and changes course. While this is an…
ReviewBooks
How To Build A Time Machine by Paul Davies (book review).
I had heard of Paul Davies’ How To Build A Time Machine years ago, but Mark Brake’s The Science Of Science Fiction drew…
ReviewScifi
Metro 2035 by Dimitri Glukhovsy (book review).
Metro 2035 is the third book in a series about forty thousand survivors of a nuclear war who live and work underground in…