Regular readers will know that ‘The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ is a magazine that covers a wide range of fiction at different lengths and branches of the genre. In the last issue, Nov/Dec 2021, it was noticeable that there were a high proportion of non-US based authors. In this issue, there is a […]
Here’s a short 16-minute-long scifi movie from John Harden, called New. In this one, an old married couple emerges from cryonic suspension centuries after their deaths to discover their life, health, and youth completely restored. They confront the delights and trials of a second existence in the far future together.
The Critical Drinker finally settles down in front of the live action version of anime Cowboy Bebop on Netflix, a wee dram in hand. What did he think? Well, CD says it was such a flop that the show was sadly cancelled mere weeks after its premiere. And he believes he has figured out why. […]
In 1991, Gainax, the anime studio that would later go on to create ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (1995), made an OVA entitled ‘Otaku No Video’. The story of a young man named Ken Kubo who falls in with some anime fans that go about changing his life. ‘Otaku No Video’ is notable for the moment early […]
Here’s another trailer for the second season of Star Trek: Picard. In Season 2, Jean-Luc Picard is forced to go across time in order to save the future. Coming March 3rd, 2022 to Amazon Prime.
Amazon Studio’s new fantasy TV series finally has a name, and it’s… The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Streaming on Amazon Prime on the 2nd September 2022. It takes the stories of Middle-Earth’s Second Age to the TV screen for the first time. This drama is set thousands of years before the […]
Hello everyone Another year. Another covid variant. Sounds like a repeat of last year although probably no better than we have had before. Worse actually, with many governments still slow on the uptake when there is a need to lockdown, putting commerce before possible fatal consequences. How can I write an editorial on anything else […]
Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) joins Michael Rosenbaum this week to talk about coping with extreme trauma and melancholy, as well as how his family’s loss and tribulations have influenced his life. Nick opens up a lot about his family’s struggles with alcoholism in this episode, including what it was like to […]
Current physics and cosmology predict that the Universe will slowly die and fade away over uncountable trillions of trillions of years, while another model, the Big Rip, predicts that the Universe will be torn apart far sooner, ripped apart by dark energy. But could civilisations withstand the atomic-scale destruction of the Universe?
Science has always been interested in telepathy and other psychic skills; but, might the future provide mankind with such abilities, and could science be the key to unlocking or producing them in the process?
The title of James T. Lacatski, Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp’s book, ‘Skinwalkers At The Pentagon’, is a bit of a misnomer. It doesn’t mean aliens are walking the American government buildings, but how UAPs/UFOs are now no longer being dismissed as in the days of Project Blue Book – but warranting serious investigation, […]
This elegantly large, designed to be displayed on your TARDIS coffee table, hardback is reminiscent of the children’s annual we all coveted in the 1970s. It’s a design choice presumably because ‘The Who Adventures’ would be too thick as a smaller format and the art work benefits from this larger format, too. This book acknowledges […]
Here’s the weekly roundup of all the best new content that is fit to print, and some that probably isn’t, concerning the topic of UFOs, UAPs, and a sugary side-dollop of woo. After that notorious government-sponsored hotel discussion regarding hybrids, retired CIA agent John Ramire and Sean Webb talk about human-alien hybrids and then do […]
A quick welcome to all the new subscribers to the SFcrowsnest Weekly Magazine who have come on recently from Booksweeps. As a special gift to you (and our other readers, of course), you can now download the first three books in the best-selling ‘Sliding Void‘ science fiction series from Stephen Hunt, free for any reading […]
