Snowpiercer: season 3 teaser and season 4 renewal (news and trailer).
Daveed Diggs is here with the happy news that Snowpiercer season 3 is on the way, and season 4 of Snowpiercer has been renewed.
Scifi
The Shaman (short scifi film: in full).
The Shaman is a short science fiction film by Marco Kalantari, in which we take a visit to the year 2204, and a world that has seen 73 years of continuous war. A Shaman is sent on a dangerous mission to convert the soul of a giant battle colossus.
Anime & Manga
Inside the Tokyo Akihabara’s anime stores (video).
Let’s take a visit through the anime stores of that most geekiest of areas, Tokyo’s Akihabara district. Hey, it’s like we’re really there!
What’s it like to work as an anime and manga figure sculptor? (video)
There’s a whole universe of manga/anime figures available on the shelves of model and toy stores in Japan. And you know what, some lucky bugger has the job of designing and making them. In this case, a chap called Sho who works as a model sculptor at the Good Smile Company in the world’s geekiest area – […]
TV
Snowpiercer: season 3 teaser and season 4 renewal (news and trailer).
Daveed Diggs is here with the happy news that Snowpiercer season 3 is on the way, and season 4 of Snowpiercer has been renewed.
Jodie Whittake and Chris Chibnall both to exit Doctor Who (news).
Showrunner Chris Chibnall and the Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, will be moving on from Doctor Who with a six-part serial announced for the autumn, and two specials planned for 2022, plus an additional final feature-length adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor, to form a trio of Specials for 2022, before the Doctor regenerates once more. As […]
Culture
An interview with Louise Johnson, Translator of Andrea Víctrix, by Gareth D Jones (interview).
Q: It seems you’ve been a fan of Llorenç Villalonga for quite a number of years. How did you come to end up translating ‘Andrea Víctrix’? Was it something you’ve always wanted to do? I’m not sure I’d say I’m a ‘fan’! He’s a complex character who for very good reasons hasn’t always found favour, […]
Back Issue #128 July 2021 (magazine review).
As you can tell from the cover of this ‘Back Issue’, the emphasis is on Bronze Age TV Tie-Ins. Mike Eury’s introduction shows just how extensive they were and also several that were never done. This subject has been tapped across several issues before but this one is a complete concentration. TV might has supplanted […]
Science
SETI rebooted: the new Galileo Project launches, dedicated to finding alien life (science news).
Dr Brian Keating releases some stunning news fresh out of Harvard, today. Basically, it’s SETI plus, a massive new project called the Galileo Project to find alien life – whether it be via UAPs, alien space junk, alien bio-sigs, or anomalous megastructures. “In 2017, the world for the first time observed an interstellar object, called […]
The Science Of Orphan Black: The Official Companion by Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth (book review).
You know how it is. You enjoy a TV series, so there is a desire to see what books there are on the subject. ‘The Science Of Orphan Black: The Official Companion’ by Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth seemed like a good place to start. Here, the authors blend real science with the unauthorised experimentation […]
Books
The Prisoner: An Illustrated History by Andrew Pixley (book review).
I pulled this book, ‘The Prisoner: An Illustrated History’ by Andrew Pixley, last year and with my current ‘Psi-Kicks’ storyline drawing tags from ‘The Prisoner’ TV series coming to an end, thought it might be a good idea to fit this book in, just in case I missed anything. You’ll have to decide that for […]
Supersymmetry (book two) by David Walton (book review).
‘Supersymmetry’by David Walton is the second novel in David Walton’s ‘Superposition’ duology. ‘Supersymmetry’ picks up the story fifteen years after the end of the first novel, ‘Superposition’. The varcolac, the creature composed of the complex quantum interactions of the particles, has been safely kept away from Earth. But now it is back and wants revenge […]
Recent Articles
Welcome to you new subscribers.
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 […]
UFO cocktail hour (UFO news round-up: week ending 31st July 2021).
Here’s a roundup of all the new UFO/UAP-related content that has landed on the streams recently, that might tickle the fancy of anyone with an interest in this subject. Let’s start off with some real ‘out there’ stuff, with an interview with someone who claims to be have been part of a UFO crash retrieval […]
