Category: GENRE
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars carries the Hugo Awards.
The Calculating Stars, an alternate history of climate change and space exploration by Mary Robinette Kowal was voted Best Novel by science fiction fans in the 2019 Hugo Awards hosted in Dublin. Tomi Adeyemi’s West African-inspired fantasy novel, Children of Blood and Bone, won the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. Jeanette Ng, author […]
Underwater (scifi movie trailer).
Underwater is an upcoming Abyss-like science fiction movie with a touch of Alien where a crew of underwater miners must try to reach safety after their drilling operation damages their deep-sea floor factory and releases … something … into the ocean alongside them, which then quickly starts hunting them down one by one. Hitting the […]
Photographing The Deep Sky: Images In Time And Space by Chris Baker (book review).
Look at the cover of Chris Baker’s book, ‘Photographing The Deep Sky: Images In Time And Space’, and tell me you aren’t tempted purely by the cover. Baker owns a telescope observatory in Spain and all the photographs in this book are taken there or in the viscinity. The book is divided between nebulas and […]
The North Beyond Part 2: Maesrhon by P.M. Scrayfield (book review).
‘The North Beyond’ is one big novel divided into four books, of which this is the second part. As a result, there is little to guide the reader in the architecture of this fantasy world. Part one was the story of Numirantoro (none of the characters have a familiar diminutive), her childhood and how she […]
Actor Peter Fonda passes (Futureworld, Escape from L.A).
The classic 1960s actor Peter Fonda passed away from respiratory failure caused by lung cancer in his mansion in LA, yesterday, aged 79. He acted in a number of genre movies and TV series including Futureworld (the sequel to Westworld), Escape from L.A, Ghost Rider, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Supernova, but he’ll be […]
Auggie (scifi movie trailer).
In Black Mirror-like science fiction film Auggie, Felix Greystone has to accept early retirement, and with time on his hands, falls in love with a super realistic AI augmented reality companion. Unfortunately, this is to the detriment of his real relationship with his actual flesh-and-blood wife and daughter.
Am I Overthinking This? by Michelle Rial (book review).
Now am I overthinking here? Michelle Rial’s book ‘Am I Overthinking This?’ on a page flick test is an assortment of photographic and simple art pages, some of it purporting to be the bell-shaped averages graph. When you read, the text is actually very simple but it is supposed to be. Are you sure you […]
Enter The Anime (Netflix anime documentary: tight or tripe?)
There’s a new documentary out on Netflix called Enter The Anime, which has Tania Nolan looking to explain anime’s popularity by interviewing Shinji Aramaki, Kôzô Morishita and Yoko Takahashi, the creators behind Castlevania, Aggretsuko and Kengan Ashura. It’s been rather slated by some fans complaining that all of the interviewees have worked on Netflix-licensed anime […]
Preacher: 4th season episode four peek (trailer).
Here’s the 4th season episode four peek into what we can expect from the TV version of The Preacher.
American Horror Story 1984: 9th season for the TV series (horror trailer)
American Horror Story 1984 hits the small screen on Wednesday September 18th 2019 on FX. Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Cody Fern, and Matthew Morrison star in this season’s slightly dark and ironic take on 1980’s horror flicks.
