ReviewScifi
Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper (book review).
GF Willmetts reviews Omnilingual, seven H. Beam Piper short stories from 1947 to 1959, from Martian archaeology to Benjamin Bathurst's vanishing.
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November 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…
October 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…
NewsScifi
The Million-Year Picnic Is Over: Bradbury’s Mars Runs Out of Calendar
The final chapter of Ray Bradbury's original The Martian Chronicles is dated October 2026. So why does the prophet of the post-literate age…
March 2026
TrailerScifi
For All Mankind season 5 trailer promises Mars independence (video).
There are plenty of science fiction series that talk a good game about the future, then quietly retreat into laser pew-pew and people…
July 2025
NewsScifi
Barsoom Reborn: John Carter rides again (in glorious animation) TV news.
Hold on to your radium rifles, dear readers, because John Carter of Mars is charging back into the fray – this time in…
December 2024
ReviewScifi
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962) (film review).
Now the 1962 film ‘The Day Mars Invaded Earth’ is just plain quirky. Scientist David Fielding (actor Kent Taylor) is responsible for a…
April 2024
TrailerScifi
Mars Express: a galactic gumshoe’s tale on the Red Planet (trailer).
Imagine a future where the sandy streets of Mars are illuminated not just by the distant sun, but by the flickering neon of…
ReviewScifi
Devil Girl From Mars (1954) (SF film review).
‘Devil Girl From Mars’ is an interesting film. First released in 1954, this black-and-white science fiction film has been restored and reissued. I…
March 2024
NewsScience
Volcanic Vistas: booking your future Martian holiday at Noctis? (science news)
Crikey, Martians, brace yourselves, because it looks like your real estate just got a tad more crowded! In what could only be described…
December 2023
NewsScience
Martian Chronicles: Perseverance rover spills the secrets of Mars’ ancient lakes (science news).
NASA’s Perseverance Rover, the interplanetary Sherlock Holmes, recently celebrated its 1000th Martian day (or sol, for those in the cosmic know) by doing…
July 2023
NewsScience
Mission to Mars: the race to colonise the Red Planet (science video).
Strap in, SFcrowsnest folks, because we’re about to embark on a journey that’s more thrilling than a roller coaster ride through the cosmos.…