Category: Scifi
Kzine Issue 29 Kindle Edition (emag review)
‘Kzine’ is a little British magazine that publishes quality short fiction in several genres. The latest issue is up to its usual high standards. Out of the eight stories featured, all pretty good, here are some I particularly enjoyed. ‘Daughter Of Deep Silence’ by Wes Blalock is a conventional adventure story rather than SF or […]
The Illustrated Book Of Science Fiction Ideas & Dreams by David Kyle (book review)
This book, ‘The Illustrated Book Of Science Fiction Ideas & Dreams’, is a companion piece to David Kyle’s ‘A Pictorial History Of Science Fiction’, looking at different aspects of SF although it would have been difficult not to have some elements of history, simply for its placement in time. Even so, there has to be […]
This Eden by Ed O’Loughlin (book review).
Michael is a struggling engineering student whose girlfriend, Alice, is a coder and is working on a mysterious project for a big Silicon Valley corporation. When she dies, that same corporation offers him a job, though he doesn’t really know why. With the job come secrets, industrial espionage and shadowy figures from Alice’s other life […]
See (second season of Apple TV scifi TV series with Jason Momoa, Dave Bautista) (trailer).
Here’s the second season of Apple Studio’s See, now with Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista. This is the one set in a post-apocalyptic near-Iron Age future where everyone is blind and technology is lost – until a handful of sighted kids are born and all hell breaks out.
The Final Moments of Karl Brant (short scifi movie: in full).
The Final Moments of Karl Brant is a 16-minute-long science fiction film by M. Francis Wilson, set in the near future where experimental technology allows two detectives to bring a murder victim back to life in a digital state in order to question him about his final moments.
Thin Air by Richard Morgan (book review)
‘Thin Air’ by Richard K. Morgan is standalone Science Fiction novel that takes place mainly on Mars. Hakan Veil used to be an overrider, a genetically engineered trouble-shooter with an inbuilt minder/computer to help him with his assignments. His company sent him round the Solar System to deal with potential emergencies and some of them […]
Salad Mug: Dynamo Dream (short scifi film: in full).
Here’s the 20-minute-long short science fiction film Salad Mug: Dynamo Dream by the very talented indie filmmaker Ian Hubert – some unique visuals and feels to this strange beast.
Invasion (Apple Studios new scifi TV series: trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the new TV series Invasion from Apple Studios, which streams from October 22nd 2021 on Apple TV+. This tracks multiple storylines across different continents, with a global take on how an alien invasion might impact everyone – and Sam Neill plays a U.S. sheriff during said invasion. The trailer seems a […]
Another Life (second season of the Netflix scifi TV series: first trailer).
There’s a second season of the Netflix scifi TV series Another Life on the way. This is the one as Katee Sackhoff playing the commander of a starship being sent to investigate the origins of an odd advanced alien starship that’s landed on Earth – and comes to the worrying conclusion that these Achaian dudes […]
Feeling blue about that alien invasion of Earth?
It looks like the Fox Channel is shutting down in the UK, with most of its content being yanked from Sky and getting dumped instead into Disney Plus. This is a personal windfall for me – Sky was too expensive for a humble starving author, but I Disney’d up for The Mandalorian. Now, at last, […]
