Here’s the trailer for Amazon’s new scifi TV series, The Feed, coming your way November 22nd 2019. It is set in a cyberpunky near future where the internet has migrated into people’s brains via direct neural connections. But when a computer virus starts infecting the implanted masses, it’s up to the few people without the […]
In the SF disaster film Radioflash, when a nuclear device detonated high about the USA causes a ‘coldbringer’ EMP pulse which fries the power and electronics of North America, civilisation rapidly collapses towards a new dark age, and a family have to flee for the mountain safety of their crazy grandfather living off the grid, […]
Anime The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened is arriving December 30th 2019 on Netflix. Kusuo Saiki is a high school student who was born with psychic abilities, including telepathy, psychokinesis, teleportation, and other talents. Despite having all these powers, Saiki faces all kinds of hardships and tries to avoid attention as much as possible. […]
Levius is a new Netflix anime streaming on November 28th 2019 (based on the manga comic-book of the same name). With the casualties of war still haunting him, young Levius uses his prosthetic arm to take his fight into the brutal world of Mecha Boxing.
Here’s the trailer for Amazon’s new scifi TV series, The Feed, coming your way November 22nd 2019. It is set in a cyberpunky near future where the internet has migrated into people’s brains via direct neural connections. But when a computer virus starts infecting the implanted masses, it’s up to the few people without the […]
Actors Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel will be starring in HBO’s Station Eleven, a new post-apocalyptic TV series based on the scifi novel by Emily St. John Mandel, set in North America after a flu-like super-plague wipes out 95% of humanity, and the survivors have to rediscover art and music together to keep their spirits […]
‘Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores’ is a website devoted to publishing short stories in various speculative fiction genres as well as art, interviews and resources for authors. This website feels forgotten, despite the stories that are uploaded roughly once per month. From the ‘About Us’ page I can see that the team behind the site […]
The opening features of the latest edition of ‘Retro Fan’ is pure Americana as I can’t recall them ever being shown over here. The first is an interview by Dan Johnson with TV horror host Svengoolie although I think he should have been called Son Of Svengoolie as he’s the second of that name. Amusingly, […]
Scientist and all-round super-brain Michio Kaku is interviewed about the future of humanity, alien contact, the multiverse, artificial intelligence, space travel and advanced physics.
Is the atmosphere of Venus being altered by living organisms? An exploration of recent research suggests the atmosphere of Venus could be being modified by the action of microbial life.
The anthology ‘Otherworld Secrets’ is a collection of six stories about the characters in Kelley Armstrong’s ‘Otherworld’ novels. In other words, essential reading if you’ve bought into the fantasy universe that is made up of vampires, werewolves and other fantastic beasts. Each story is self-contained but does refer to other events in the characters’ lives, […]
‘Brightfall’ is a story of witches, fae folk and evil. It’s also about Maid Marian and Robin of Sherwood, long after the outlaw years. Times have changed. Robin has taken himself to a monastery. Marian looks after their boy and girl twins. She found happiness with Will Scarlett but bad things are coming and Will […]
Eden is an original anime from Netflix, arriving in 2020 by director Yasuhiro Irie (Fullmetal Alchemist), and designer Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop). Thousands of years into the future, there are no more humans. Only robots live in the mechanical metropolis, Eden 3. Until, one day, two farming robots find a young human girl in the […]
Netflix has a new anime coming to the streams next year … Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 (directed by Shinji Aramaki of Appleseed fame). In the year 2045, after global capitalism has defaulted, Japan’s elite Section 9 begins conducting covert cyber operations.
