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Space opera tells large-scale adventures among stars, spacecraft and interstellar societies. Its stories can encompass exploration, politics, war and encounters with other worlds.

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December 2023

30Dec 2023

NewsScifi

Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire, Mark Kermode’s scifi film review.

Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, sits down to examine Netflix’s latest science fiction offering – the film Rebel Moon Part One:…

ColonelFrog30 Dec 2023

November 2023

13Nov 2023

TrailerScifi

Rebel Moon – a Netflix space opera film with a Snyder twist? (trailer)

From Zack Snyder, the mastermind behind cinematic epics like 300 and Man of Steel, comes his latest brainchild, Rebel Moon – Part One:…

ColonelFrog13 Nov 2023

Precure hands the keys to the villains in Dual Shadow, a 2027 spin-off where the heroines are not Precure (anime news).

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).

Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator.

Jumanji: Open World (trailer 2): the game has followed us home.

Beating The Devil: The Making Of Night Of The Demon by Tony Earnshaw (book review).

7,350 days and counting: the Osaka office worker whose daily webcomic has just outrun Schlock Mercenary (comics news).

Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)

Would you kindly? Francis Lawrence says Netflix’s BioShock film is still alive, despite the “regime changes” (film news).

Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot.

Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026

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).

7,350 days and counting: the Osaka office worker whose daily webcomic has just outrun Schlock Mercenary (comics news).

Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).

Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news).

“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).

Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name

Phase through walls, phase into the MCU? Cailee Spaeny tipped as Kitty Pryde for Marvel’s X-Men (rumour).

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