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Unknown Worlds: Tales From Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt (book review).

In 1939, John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of ‘Astounding Science Fiction’, launched a new magazine called ‘Unknown Worlds’ for fantasy stories without any…

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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Hits Continue For A Tenth-Anniversary Divine Game (tokusatsu).

Everybody wants to be a Mind: why the AI bosses keep quoting Iain M. Banks, and what the Culture novels actually say (opinion).

Criminal teaser: Prime Video raids the Brubaker and Phillips back catalogue, and sensibly leaves the guns at home.

Futuristic: Rockets, Robots And Rayguns Of Space Age Pop Culture by Mark Voger (book review).

Untapped At Last: Netflix’s Magic: The Gathering Series Planeswalker Shows Its Hand For 2027 (TV news).

DOOM: The Dark Ages Gets Slaughter Mode, Which Is Rather A Lot Of Slaughter For Free (games news).

One light-day from home: Voyager 1 crosses a line no machine has crossed, and unlike V’Ger, it isn’t coming back to look for its maker (science news).

Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news).

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Enters The Home Straight, Says Druckmann (games news).

Spy x Family Season 4 and a second film: Operation Strix has its budget renewed for 2027 (anime news).

Jurassic Park was right about the blood, wrong about the mosquito: scientists claim 115-million-year-old red blood cells in a Brazilian dinosaur (science news).

John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary).

Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news).

Marvel Explodes: From Bullpen To Big Business (Marvel Age Of Comics) by Paul Levitz (book review)

Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news).

A long time ago, in a cinema near you: the 1977 Star Wars returns on 19 February, and Lucasfilm opens the vault on how it was made (film news).

Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news).

Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Hits Continue For A Tenth-Anniversary Divine Game (tokusatsu).

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Stanley Schmidt

May 2025

Unknown Worlds: Tales From Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt (book review).