ReviewScifi
Metro 2033 (book 1 of 3) by Dimitri Glukhovsy (book review).
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a post-apocalyptic science fiction horror thriller set within the Moscow Metro system that will, one hopes, put…
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ReviewScifi
The Worlds Of Robert Heinlein (book review).
Although I have read most of Robert Heinlein’s novels, it appears I somehow missed this anthology, The Worlds Of Robert Heinlein. The collection…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #5 August 2004 (magazine review).
There are a few back issues, if you’ll pardon the expression, of TwoMorrows Publishing’s Back Issue magazine that have long sat on my…
ReviewScifi
The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson (book review).
Writer Colin Wilson (1931-2013) has the distinction of being acknowledged in the introduction to A.E. van Vogt’s novel The Pawns Of Null-A, where…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #166 April 2026 (magazine review).
The subtitle of this 166th edition of Back Issue is ‘Partner Up!’, focusing on various comic book partnerships, although not necessarily sidekicks. The…
ReviewScifi
Who Goes Here? by Bob Shaw (book review).
In 2386, the Space Legion recruits people who want to forget their pasts. The process is wonderfully simple: sign up and have your…
ReviewScifi
Early Del Rey by Lester Del Rey (book review).
The Early Del Rey is another substantial volume in Doubleday’s series collecting the formative works of Golden Age science fiction writers, complete with…
ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #198 March 2026 (magazine review).
As you can probably tell from the cover of this issue of Alter Ego, the main feature is a detailed look at early…
ReviewScifi
Woman Alive by Susan Ertz (book review).
In Woman Alive, Doctor Selwyn, a man, is mentally transported from 1935 to 1985, where he inhabits the consciousness of his future self…
ReviewScifi
A Sense Of Wonder by John Wyndham, Murray Leinster and Jack Williamson (book review).
When you look at the cover of this fifth reprint of the book, the title, A Sense Of Wonder, is almost lost beneath…
ReviewHorror
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy unwraps grief, gore and enough bandages to bankrupt Boots (Mark Kermode film review).
There are certain things cinema simply cannot leave buried. Dracula rises every decade or so for another nibble, Frankenstein gets rebooted whenever Hollywood…
ReviewFantasy
Mortal Kombat II arrives to punch cinema in the plot glands (Mark Kermode movie review).
Mortal Kombat II has now cartwheeled into cinemas, dragging with it several realms, a worrying number of sharp objects, and the sort of…