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Absinthe & Arsenic by Raven Dane (book review).
‘Absinthe & Arsenic’ is a collection of sixteen tales by Raven Dane, a mixture of Victorian weird fiction and steampunk. In the introduction,…
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Doctor Who: Dalek Combat Training Manual by Richard Atkinson and Mike Tucker (book review).
What would the Doctor be without the Daleks? Most likely a footnote in TV history, a forgotten SF show that a couple of…
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The Nevers: new HBO steampunk TV series (trailer).
Here’s the first full trailer for HBO’s new steampunk-flavoured TV series, The Nevers, with a bunch of Victorian women given super-powers by some…
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Beowulf: Age Of Heroes by Jon Hodgson, David Rea and Jacob Rodgers (RPG review).
‘Beowulf: Age Of Heroes’ is an expansion to ‘Dungeons And Dragons 5e’ and so it assumes you have access to the basic Player’s…
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Doctor Who: Stranded 2 by Lisa McMullin Roy Gill Matt Fitton and John Dorney (audio review).
This second instalment of the ‘Stranded’ is four more stories about the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen as they live their lives in…
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Mandalorian Razor Crest starship: full size replica built in Russia (video).
Ah, those crazy Russians – a bunch of fans of the Mandalorian got together and spent $10,000 building a working (well, apart from…
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Fairhaven Rising (Saga Of Recluce book 22) by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (book review)
‘Fairhaven Rising is the 22nd book in the ‘Saga Of Recluce’, set in a fantasy world where magic is a matter of controlling…
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Elektra Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz (comic-book retrospective: video).
Ed and Jim bring us a retrospective on the classic comic-book that is the Daredevil special Elektra Assassin, by the very talented Frank…
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My Adventures With Sheena Queen Of The Jungle: The Making Of The Movie Sheena by Yoram Ben-Ami (film book review).
Having watched the 1984 ‘Sheena’ film the other night, I can settle down to read the book, ‘My Adventures With Sheena Queen Of…
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Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle (1984) (DVD film review).
As I was supposed to be reviewing a book about the film, I realised I ought to give the 1984 ‘Sheena’ film a…
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L’Amber by Tanith Lee (book review).
What is truth? Fiction, by its nature, is a series of untruths perpetrated by the author since none of the events in a…
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Justice League: the Zack Snyder cut (superhero movie review by Mark Kermode).
The DC superhero film Justice League is back with us again, this time re-cut by Zack Snyder. Is the new revised movie any…