NewsAnime/manga Seven Seas signs up a runaway mermaid and a retired hitwoman with a gacha habit for 2027 (manga and books news). Seven Seas' latest licences include Yue Ben Du's mermaid cultivation romance Into the Sea, Fuyuki Izumida's hitwoman comedy Nighthawk, Once Again and a… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news). Grok Imagine has posted Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey on X: seven minutes, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length "historically… ColonelFrog / 26 Oct 2026
ReviewCri-Fi Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review) Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. With the sub-title of ‘Spies And Tough Guys Issue’, it’s easy to see why this issue is… UncleGeoff / 12 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was published 300 years ago this week. We look at Laputa, the Academy of Lagado, the moons of Mars… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Monster Hunter Outlanders is out on mobile, so you can now carve up an Elder Dragon on the bus (games news). Monster Hunter Outlanders, TiMi Studio Group's Capcom-licensed open-world survival hunter, has launched worldwide on iOS and Android as a free-to-play game. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Such sights to show you, again: BOOM! collects Clive Barker’s 1990s Pinhead comics for the first time since 1993 (comics news). BOOM! Studios' Hellraiser Legacy: Pinhead collects the six-issue 1993 Pinhead comic for the first time since its original run. It is due on… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was published 300 years ago this week. We look at Laputa, the Academy of Lagado, the moons of Mars… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review) ‘Creative Futures’ is not your usual anthology but comes with big credentials. It’s a collaboration between science fiction writers, Coventry University and the… Eamonn Murphy / 16 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was published 300 years ago this week. We look at Laputa, the Academy of Lagado, the moons of Mars… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsSpy-Fy Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot. Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem are reportedly writing Zodiac, Marvel's Disney+ spy thriller about two agents hunting people with special abilities. It shoots… ColonelFrog / 23 Oct 2026
RoundupWorld getting weirder Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026 David Grusch returns to Joe Rogan with a field guide to the galaxy's warring tribes, the Pentagon unlocks the NDA cupboard, and a… ColonelFrog / 3 Oct 2026
NewsDoctor Who Exterminate the writers? Russell T Davies calls the BBC boss’s AI Doctor Who remarks “clumsy”, and puts a date on the new Doctor (news). Russell T Davies calls BBC director-general Matt Brittin's praise for an AI-made Doctor Who episode "clumsy", and says production with a new Doctor… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
NewsComics 7,350 days and counting: the Osaka office worker whose daily webcomic has just outrun Schlock Mercenary (comics news). Fumiya Yomigishi's daily Japanese webcomic Baneusagi to Kamepan has reached 7,350 consecutive days, passing Schlock Mercenary's completed run. ColonelFrog / 28 Oct 2026
ReviewBooks Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review). Jacques Vallee, in this 2008 update of ‘Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact’, questions whether the pilots of the UAPs come from… UncleGeoff / 24 Oct 2026
SF /BooksIdeas worth exploring NewsBooks Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news). Andy Weir has revealed his Star Trek and Star Wars crossover idea, Star Star, in which Spock becomes a Force ghost and McCoy… ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
NewsScifi “Never say never”: Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made their peace with losing Solo, and Kathleen Kennedy sent a nice note about Project Hail Mary (Star Wars news). Phil Lord and Chris Miller tell The Town podcast they have made peace with being removed from Solo: A Star Wars Story, and… ColonelFrog / 28 Oct 2026
NewsSteampunk Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name Netflix's adult animated steampunk Western Bass X Machina, inspired by lawman Bass Reeves, arrives on 3 November 2026 with mechanical minotaurs, cybernetic arms… ColonelFrog / 23 Sep 2026
NewsBooks The superhero novel written to escape comics goes back to them: IDW is adapting Wildbow’s web serial Worm (comics news). IDW Publishing is adapting Worm, John McCrae's vast 2011–13 superhero web serial, as a comic, starting on Comics Giveaway Day, 1st May 2027. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 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
