TrailerScifi Death by spreadsheet: Karōshi’s first trailer brings samurai office politics to a Japan-ruled Manhattan. Lionsgate's first Karōshi trailer sends Teo Yoo, sword in hand, up the tower of a Japanese mega-corporation in an alternate near-future Manhattan. ColonelFrog / 5 Nov 2026
NewsBooks ZX Spectrum history book loads in 98 minutes, no tape errors reported. The Rubber-Keyed Wonder, Kim Justice's 45th-anniversary history of the ZX Spectrum, hit its Kickstarter target in 98 minutes. Last orders close on 2… ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsComics Criminal teaser: Prime Video raids the Brubaker and Phillips back catalogue, and sensibly leaves the guns at home. Prime Video's first teaser for Criminal, the Brubaker and Phillips noir adaptation with Charlie Hunnam, Emilia Clarke and Luke Evans, arrives in two… ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
NewsCulture Death To The Deepfakes: Sladen’s Daughter Calls Time On AI Sarah Jane. The uploader has now removed the original version featuring Elisabeth Sladen’s AI likeness. DigitalogMedia says the version now online is the reworked edition,… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Massive Effect: a documentary crew was filming at BioWare when the lights went out (games news). Massive Effect: The BioWare Story, a documentary filmed during the studio's final days, heads for festivals next year. ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
NewsHorror Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children #1: the crossover with a title like a tabloid front page lurches into shops in December. Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children #1, the first Slaughterverse crossover by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera, is a 64-page one-shot out… ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Mashle goes live action: Warner Bros. bets on a wizarding school where the hero solves everything with his biceps (film news). Mashle: Magic and Muscles gets a live-action film in Japanese cinemas on 19 March 2027, from Warner Bros., Fuji TV, CREDEUS and Toho. ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news). Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in Mali in 2022, is a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars with evidence of ancient water, a NASA-led study… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Fragmentary Order: Tarkov’s Nikita Buyanov shows 14 minutes of misery in space, and invites you to pay $45 to suffer early. Tarkov creator Nikita Buyanov reveals 14 minutes of Fragmentary Order gameplay, a hard sci-fi shooter set in 2251, and opens paid Prime Batch… ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
NewsCons Physint at Beyond the Strand: Kojima shows his homework, and it looks suspiciously like Metal Gear (games). Kojima Productions' tenth-anniversary show in Tokyo puts Physint's 150-page script, five Bill Skarsgård busts and some very familiar mechs on display. ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news). Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in Mali in 2022, is a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars with evidence of ancient water, a NASA-led study… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsDoctor Who John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary). John Leeson, the actor who gave Doctor Who’s robot dog K9 his clipped, faintly pompous and thoroughly lovable voice, has died at the… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news). Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan on 3 November, Godzilla's 72nd birthday, and in North America via GKIDS on 6 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsOffworld Report Dragon Ball Z Goes To Court, Gorilla Grodd Stands Trial And Arkane Gets Suitors (Offworld Report, 1–5 November 2026). A Dragon Ball Z composer becomes Texas Attorney General, Gorilla Grodd gets a true-crime show, Arkane draws bidders and SETI turns to game… ColonelFrog / 5 Nov 2026
NewsCulture Make it so, Ma’am: the Guards play Star Trek, NASA finds a starship and the West End dims its lights for Sir Patrick Stewart (news). West End theatres dim their lights for Sir Patrick Stewart at 7pm on 3 November, after a Guards band played Star Trek at… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
TrailerGames Fate of the Galaxy: the free Star Wars dogfighter that spent nineteen years in the hangar (trailer). Fan-made Star Wars space combat sim Fate of the Galaxy, built on FreeSpace 2, is out free for PC, Mac and Linux after… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news). LeSean Thomas's six-part steampunk western Bass X Machina, with Brian Tyree Henry as lawman Bass Reeves, premieres on Netflix on 3 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsComics Batman: Knightfall Part 2: Knightquest gets a 15 December date, as Azrael takes the cowl and the nineties take the wheel. Batman: Knightfall Part 2: Knightquest, the R-rated animated sequel with Azrael as Batman, arrives on digital, 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on 15… ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
16Sep 2023 ReviewBooks The New Apocrypha: A Guide To Strange Sciences & Occult Beliefs by John Sladek (book review). With the USA intelligence services releasing their classified UAP/UFO reports, if you’re pursuing any early books on the subject, you’re likely to pause… UncleGeoff / 16 Sep 2023
3Jan 2023 ReviewScifi The Steam-Driven Boy And Other Strangers by John Sladek (book review). This John Sladek volume tends to be referred to by the main part of its title, ‘The Steam-Driven Boy’ with the ‘And Other… UncleGeoff / 3 Jan 2023
11Oct 2022 ReviewScifi The Complete Roderick by John Sladek (book review). The last book I read by John Sladek (1937-2000) a long time ago was ‘The Müller-Fokker Effect’ (1970) which I thought was a… UncleGeoff / 11 Oct 2022
