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Extinction by Douglas Peston (book review).
Needless to say, when I started reading this book, ‘Extinction by Douglas Peston’, the shadow of ‘Jurassic Park’ was already looming large at…
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When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi (book review).
The museums noticed it first. Their samples were in full view. The change was obvious. Their moon rocks were no longer rocks. They…
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Alien: Earth—Can bringing Xenomorphs home end well? (TV series: trailer)
When you’ve had your fill of being trapped on gloomy spaceships and planets so remote they make Milton Keynes look cheerful, what’s left…
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Ash: scifi film review (video).
When your spaceship is mysteriously slaughtered, your crew reduced to chunky salsa, and you’ve woken up with a headache and the memory of…
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The Last Starfighter: Why arcade skills beat an Oxbridge degree any day (movie retrospective).
Back in the glorious days when an alien invasion could be thwarted by a spotty teenager armed only with a pocketful of 10p…
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Caution! Inflammable by Thomas N. Scortia (book review).
The opening introduction to this anthology, ‘Caution! Inflammable’ by Thomas N. Scortia and by Ted Sturgeon, could apply to any SF author. More…
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Century 21: Classic Comic Strips From The Worlds of Gerry Anderson Volume 1 compiled by Chris Bentley (graphic novel review).
These ‘Century 21: Classic Comic Strips’ volumes collect reprints from the famous ‘TV Century 21’ British comic (later just ‘TV21’) that first came…
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Killers From Space (1954) (film review).
After the detonation of a nuclear device in the desert, the follow-plane, carrying Dr. Paul Martin (actor Peter Graves) sees a light on…
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Black Mirror’s season 7: beam me up, Brooker (trailer).
Black Mirror, the TV series that gleefully reminds us our smartphones are secretly plotting our demise and social media algorithms know us better…
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Mickey 17: Mark Kermode’s science fiction film review (video).
Science fiction fans are in for an interesting ride with the upcoming film Mickey 17, muses our man-of-many movies, Mark Kermode, as he…
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The Electric State: Millie Bobby Brown, a giant robot, and 1990s nostalgia walk into a Dystopia (trailer).
Netflix has dropped the trailer for The Electric State, and folks, it looks like someone took Stranger Things, smashed it into The Iron…
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Mickey 17: Two’s company, but Cloning’s a crowd? (film review)
Bong Joon-ho’s latest cinematic offering, Mickey 17, is the kind of film that reminds us why we love science fiction: it’s weird, it’s…