Category: Scifi
Daybreak (Netflix TV series: trailer).
Daybreak is a new Netflix SF series following the story of various high school students in post-apocalyptic Glendale, California. Think Mad Max combined with Beverly Hills 90210. The world is over. So grab your swords and flamethrowers and let’s get this show on the road. Come on, you say apocalypse like it’s a bad thing? […]
In the Shadow of the Moon (Netflix time travel movie: trailer).
In the Shadow of the Moon, it’s 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas Lockhart (played by Boyd Holbrook) wants to become a detective, and begins tracking a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces every nine years. But when the killer’s crimes begin to defy all scientific explanation, Lock’s obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his […]
Fleetway Picture Library Classics Presents Jet-Ace Logan (graphic novel review)
I have to confess that I haven’t heard of ‘Jet-Ace Logan’ but am aware of one of its artists Ron Turner who drew the final two stories in this volume. The first two are drawn by German artist Kurt Caesar. Only the third story has a writer acknowledgement for David Motton. If you thought someone […]
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (book review).
Some books remind us how small we are or how transient life is and as a result make you want to find someone important to you and give them a hug. ‘Wanderers’ by Chuck Wendig also does this but you’ll make damn sure you wash your hands straight afterwards. Jumping between a large cast of […]
AUGGIE (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
As a going-away gift at his retirement party, Felix is given a virtual reality generator that creates for him an image of a stunningly beautiful young woman. He finds himself forming an emotional attachment to the computer-created image. The self-same story could have been told without any Science Fiction. Directed by Matt Kane; written by: […]
Battlestar Galactica reboot reboot coming, from Sam Esmail (of Mr. Robot-fame).
A Battlestar Galactica ‘reboot reboot’ is coming, from Sam Esmail of Mr. Robot-fame as part of the new streaming service from NBC Universal launching April 2020. Mixed feelings about this one. Is rebooting a reboot just diluting the clone gene pool a little too much? Also, Peacock, another new pay-to-view streaming service? On the other […]
World Science Fiction 1 Visions To Preserve The Biodiversity Of The Future edited by Francesco Verso (book review).
At a panel on translated fiction at the Dublin WorldCon, Francesco Verso was very passionate about creating opportunities for more Science Fiction from around the world to be translated into English and between numerous other languages. I met him briefly afterwards in the dealer hall. He is the founder of Future Fiction, an Italian organisation […]
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak to hit Netflix (news).
The 1963 science fiction Hugo Award-winning novel Way Station by Clifford D. Simak is on its way to Netflix in the near future. The book was first published as Here Gather the Stars as serialised form inside Galaxy Magazine In the book, Enoch Wallace, an American Civil War soldier, is chosen by aliens to administer […]
Salvation (The Salvation Sequence book 1) by Peter F. Hamilton (book review).
‘Salvation’ by Peter F. Hamilton is the first book in an alien inclusive space opera trilogy, where the mode of space travel based on quantum spatial entanglement and the all too human need to extend healthy lives drives humanity and the story in interesting ways. The Neána aliens travelling through interstellar space pick up signals […]
Lost Transmissions: The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy edited by Desirina Boskovitch (book review).
I doubt if anyone interested in our genre is truly expert in all aspects of Science Fiction anymore. You would need unlimited time, insomnia and an open-ended chequebook, not to mention a good memory. ‘Lost Transmissions: The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy’ really focuses on the more obscure information or things you might […]
