Parsec Awards 2018: sounds real good …
Gareth Jones, writer extraordinaire for SFcrowsnest for many a long year, has a story ‘The Long Afternoon of Sir Rupert
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Glass (dark superhero movie: trailer).
M. Night Shyamalan slaps together the narrative arc of his movies Unbreakable with 2016’s Split, in all-new comic-book film: Glass.
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Comic Con London is hitting the UK this month, 26-28th October.
This year’s MCM Comic Con London is once more returning to ExCeL London. Among their guest line-up this October, they
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I Feel Machine: Stories by Shaun Tan, Tillie Walden, Box Brown, Krent Able, Erik Svetoft and Julian Hanshaw (graphic novel review).
Volunteering to read ‘I Feel Machine’ was an attempt to broaden my pedestrian mind. I like publisher SelfMadeHero and support
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Visual Storytelling by Morgan Sandler (book review).
I’ve always maintained that comicbook artists can learn a lot from film-making techniques. The opening chapter of Morgan Sandler’s book,
Read MoreMortal Artists (the concept art behind the Mortal Engines movie).
Peter Jackson ordered a steampunk take for his first Mortal Engines movie that might make even a Stephen Hunt Jackelian book
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Incremental: 25 Tales Of Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, And Bizarre Fiction Kindle Edition by Geoff Nelder (ebook review).
I’ve reviewed a few of Geoff Nelder’s SF stories in ‘Perihelion SF’ and liked them so he felt emboldened to
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Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt (short movie).
Here’s an interesting if rather odd fish … a made-for-TV semi-biographical/semi-action-comedy movie channelling the 1960s Batman, featuring Adam West and
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Strange Nature (2018) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
In the rural wetlands of Minnesota near Duluth, Nature appears to be changing in some most unnatural ways. People living
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The Laser That’s Changing The World by Todd Neff (book review).
If you think lasers are only used in burglar alarms, then Todd Neff’s book, ‘The Laser That’s Changing The World’
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