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Death Sentence: a Psi-Kicks story by GF Willmetts.
‘Hello Georgie, didn’t realise you were doing duty today.’ Georgire Rothane gave a wry smile. As if. This was the Farsighters unit. They…
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February 2025
ReviewScifi
Weird Science Volume 2: The EC Archives (graphic novel review).
The second volume of ‘Weird Science’ continues reprinting them in an odd order, these from the original # 5-12, so we still haven’t…
ReviewScifi
Time Untamed (book review).
Now here’s a surprise. Back in the day, most SF publishers put out a few SF anthologies annually. Like ‘Time Untamed,’ it allowed…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #158 December 2024 (magazine review).
Oddly, despite the cover of two heroic Marvel superheroes, the latest edition of ‘Back Issue,’ with new editor Roger Ash, is devoted to…
ReviewBooks
Under A Crimson Sun: Prospects For Life In A Red Dwarf System by David S. Stevenson (book review).
Under this long title, ‘Under A Crimson Sun: Prospects For Life In A Red Dwarf System,’ author David S. Stevenson actually gives the…
January 2025
ReviewScifi
Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (book review).
The Knight’s Move Project is a search for teleportation in the future. The Knight’s Move Project originates from the chess knight, who moves…
ReviewComics
Detective Comics: 80 Years Of The Batman: The Deluxe Edition (graphic novel review).
Of the three introductions, only Senator Patrick Leahy ignored Bill Finger’s contribution to the Batman mythos. Dan DiDio notes that Batman debuted in…
NewsScifi
Companion: Mark Kermode’s science fiction film review (video).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, is here to watch the scifi horror flick Companion, and bring you his findings in the…
ReviewFantasy
The Runes Of Engagement by Dave Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell (book review).
There can be very few readers who are unaware of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic trilogy, “Lord of the Rings,” or of the rage of…
ReviewScifi
Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter (book review).
This is my first time reading a book by K.W. Jeter, but with a title like ‘Farewell Horizontal,’ you have to be curious…
NewsScifi
Larry Niven: Ringworlds, Puppeteers, and the joy of indestructible Monomolecular Wires (interview).
There are few authors in science fiction who have managed to blend hard science with outright insanity quite as well as Larry Niven,…
FeatureScifi
The Twilight Zone: a retrospective (article).
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is vast, it is infinite, and it somehow still makes…