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BooksScienceScifi

Death Rays And The Popular Media, 1876-1939 by William J. Fanning, Jr. (book review).

The kind of happy subject you want this time of year is ‘Death Rays And The Popular Media’. Specifically from

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BooksScifi

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts (book review).

The thing about ‘The Thing Itself’ is that it’s difficult to say what the Thing is, which is actually the

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BooksFantasySteampunk

Sky Pirates (The Chronicles Of Light And Shadow book three) by Liesel Schwarz (book review).

‘Sky Pirates’, the third book of ‘The Chronicles Of Light And Shadow’, chronicles the further adventures of Elle Chance. She

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Ancient BC-dated mobile phone discovered. Aliens, Atlanteans or time travellers?
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Ancient BC-dated mobile phone discovered. Aliens, Atlanteans or time travellers?

An 800-year old clay model of a mobile phone-style communicator or tricorder has been discovered in Germany – and while

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BooksScifi

Raising Caine (Caine Riordan book 3) by Charles E. Gannon (book review)

Caine Riordan has a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In ‘Fire With Fire’, he

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BooksHorror

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (book review).

‘Warm Bodies’ was Isaac Marion’s debut novel and it seemed to catch the zombie zeitgeist when it came out in

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BooksScifi

A Borrowed Man by Gene Wolfe (book review).

There is much debate amongst the reading public as to the future of the book and libraries. For the older

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FilmsScifiSuperheroes

Ant-Man (2015) (Blu-ray film review).

I did wonder why they started with a second-generation Ant-Man rather than see his creator, Henry Pym, have his career.

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FilmsHorrorMEDIA

Nekromantik 2 Special Edition (1991) (DVD/Blu-ray film review)

‘Nekromantik 2’ is the 1991 sequel to Jörg Buttgereit’s cult low budget 1987 horror film ‘Nekromantik’. The original film tells

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IllustrationMagazinesScifi

Illustrators # 9 (magazine review)

As soon as I saw the cover of Illustrators # 9, I recognised the work of Bruce Pennington because it’s

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