Orville scifi TV series: 3rd season review (video).
Nick has been watching The Orville‘s 3rd season on TV so you don’t have to. Is this what Star Trek used to be, and still should be – or simply a homage too far?
Scifi
The Man With A Thousand Names by AE Van Vogt (book review).
‘The Man With A Thousand Names’ comes from AE Van Vogt’s second phase of writing in the 1970s. Actually, it feels more like two or three names really but you have to treat this story as part detective as Van Vogt lays in the clues as to what is going on and why. Spoilt rich […]
Anime & Manga
Drifting Home (anime: Netflix trailer).
Drifting Home, Studio Colorido’s third feature-length animation film is coming to Netfllix. Sixth-graders Childhood pals Kosuke and Natsume grew up in the same apartment block. During their summer vacation, they get caught up in a bizarre occurrence while playing in the apartment building that is about to be destroyed. All they can see is a […]
Inukami! Omnibus Collection 1 by Mamizu Arisawa and Mari Matsuzawa (graphic novel review).
Kami are the spirits of Japanese folklore and an inukami, in particular, a dog-spirit that features in this manga series is called Yoko, a supposedly untrainable and rebellious spirit, despite her essentially benevolent nature. Keita Kawahira is a young man from a family of spirit trainers but, in time-honoured manga tradition, he’s really an idler, […]
TV
The highs and lows of The Walking Dead: Jon Bernthal and Sarah Wayne Callies chat (interview).
Sarah and Jon became fast friends after meeting each other on the set of The Walking Dead and have maintained that relationship ever since. They decided to talk about their time spent working together while seated at a table.
Orville scifi TV series: 3rd season review (video).
Nick has been watching The Orville‘s 3rd season on TV so you don’t have to. Is this what Star Trek used to be, and still should be – or simply a homage too far?
Culture
Editorial – August 2022: Science is constant. Science Fiction isn’t constant.
Science is constant. Science Fiction isn’t constant. Hello everyone, There is always a debate as to which came first: the bird or the egg, forgetting the third answer: the reptile who laid it. After all, some animal had to lay the eggs first. Lesson learnt is not to accept that everything has only two choices, […]
Retro Fan #21 July 2022 (magazine review).
Scott Shaw! rolls off this issue of ‘Retro Fan’ looking at his time when he was involved in the advertising campaign for Pebbles cereal using the Flintstones giving some insight into his job. His end comment that it was safer to eat the box than the cereal shows how sugary it was. I was mostly […]
Science
The Fermi Paradox explained: timebombs in technology? (science video)
Isaac Arthur often wonders where all the extraterrestrial life is in the galaxy, but might it be that the technology required for space travel and star travel always bring about disaster?
Time travel and warp drives, from the physicist they based Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future on (video interview).
Dr. Jack Sarfatti outlines his approach to consciousness, time travel, and other cutting-edge themes in science and physics. He also conceptualises UAP propulsion and gives insights on warp-drive architecture. The Sarfatti “weightless warp-drive” proposal uses gravitational metamaterials to construct a low-power warp-drive based on the ordinary and widely recognised concepts of relativity theory rather than […]
Books
The Man With A Thousand Names by AE Van Vogt (book review).
‘The Man With A Thousand Names’ comes from AE Van Vogt’s second phase of writing in the 1970s. Actually, it feels more like two or three names really but you have to treat this story as part detective as Van Vogt lays in the clues as to what is going on and why. Spoilt rich […]
Skyward Flight by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson (book review).
‘Skyward Flight’ is the omnibus edition of three ‘Skyward’ novellas: ‘Sunreach’, ‘ReDawn’ and ‘Evershore’, all of which are related to Brandon Sanderson’s ‘Skyward Trilogy’. I didn’t realise this before starting the book but, although these novellas refer back to events in the first trilogy, I was able to follow the story without any problem. There […]
Recent Articles
The finest Thor film is The Dark World, right? (video).
Defending Thor: The Dark World while disparaging Ragnarok to gain online influence. It’s a tough business but someone has to do it.
Batman vs Ra’s Al Ghul by Neal Adams (graphic novel review)
I came across ‘Batman vs Ra’s Al Ghul’ by Neal Adams and realised that this must probably be one of last works before his death in April. Gotham City is still in turmoil when the Batman discovers that Commissioner Gordon has sided with that nice Professor Ra’s Al Ghul who has brought in a team […]
