Category: Scifi
The Last Emperox (The Interdependency book 3) by John Scalzi (book review).
The barely understood spatial phenomena called the Flow has allowed ships to leap across the vastness of space between human colonies. It is the Flow that has allowed the Interdependency to flourish for a thousand years. The precarious civilisation of the Interdependency is coming to an end. Cardenia Wu-Patrick ascended the throne to become Emperox […]
Debris (new NBC science fiction TV series: trailer).
Here’s the first trailer for NBC’s new scifi TV series, Debris, in which a new multinational spy agency is set up to investigate the mysterious effects wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft begins to work on humanity. A couple of mismatched agents (are there any other kind?) run into all sorts of sub-X-Files brown stuff […]
Here Comes Frieda (short science fiction film: in full – video).
Here Comes Frieda is a short science fiction movie by Robin Takao D’Oench. It’s 2040, and super-storms of lethal proportion are commonplace. Citizens play a lottery where the winners get free passage to an orbital habitat named Upper Paradise. Against astronomical odds, Lilly Lamont, a young blind woman finds herself the winner. As she prepares […]
Dune: The Duke Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy book 1) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (book review).
To paraphrase Liet-Kynes, ‘Against all better judgement, I liked book.’ Put another way, there’s a fair deal of antipathy directed at Messrs Herbert and Anderson for the way they’ve plundered Herbert Sr’s universe for the material needed to pump out, on a literally industrial scale, one pot-boiler scifi novel after another. Where the original ‘Dune’ […]
Vanguard (The Genesis Fleet book 1) by Jack Campbell (book review).
In the early days of Science Fiction, the ‘Pulp’ era, the main concern was action and adventure. There was a conceit that eventually ways would be found for ships to travel faster than light and the communications would be similarly instantaneous. No thought was given to what conditions would be like on board ship and […]
Archive – a scifi film review by Mark Kermode (video).
In science fiction movie Archive, it’s 2038, and an expert in artificial intelligence secretly attempts to reunite with his sadly deceased wife through a new engineering prototype.
For All Mankind: scifi TV series, second season (trailer).
In the second season of the TV series For All Mankind, the parallel reality take on a world where the USSR got to the Moon first, continues, sparking a long-running space race in the solar system. We reach 1983, and President Reagan is close to sparking a third world war in space when the commies load […]
The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell (book review).
‘The Stranger Times’ is the title of this humorous fantasy novel by C.K. McDonnell and also the name of a fictional newspaper in Manchester that features stories of the paranormal, often sent in by readers. Examples of these are scattered through the book and include: ‘Dawkins Is God’, ‘Ghost Of Bowie Keen To Record New […]
Alan Dean Foster: science fiction author interview (video).
Alan Dean Foster, the science fiction author behind many media tie-in novels as well as the fab Humanx Commonwealth Universe books, is interviewed about getting screwed for royalties by Disney after they purchased the Star Wars franchise, his thoughts on the relationship arc between Rey and Finn, and which Star Wars films he liked and […]
Westworld Season 3 (DVD SF series review).
With the start of the opening episode for ‘Westworld Season 3’, you might be forgiven to thinking your language setting and sub-titles have been subverted by the Delos AI, but give it a few minutes and they’ll start speaking English. It’s a reminder that nothing is what it seems, although working out what is going […]
