The original “White Man Goes To Africa” adventure, H. Rider Haggard wrote…
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
So I’ve seen Valerian. While I enjoyed myself, loved the visuals and…
Issue #241 – As You Wish
It’s one of the most quotable movies in history, and the…
Issue #240 – Red Dwarf
It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere, I’m all alone,…
Issue #239 – Edgeworks Collection
This is a series you’ll only find from used sources, but if…
Issue #238 – The Force Awakens
This started off as a very different review. Usually when I read…
Issue #237 – Cinder
While some people groan and rant any time a beloved franchise…
#235 – The League of Rogues Series
I wanted to return to the world of adult novels, which I…
Issue #234 – The Lost Worlds of 2001
This is something new for me: recommending a book you’ll probably never…
Issue # 233 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Trying to write from a different perspective is never an easy thing.…
Issue #232 – The Long Earth Series
Imagine a world where the Earth’s evolution ended up just slightly different…
Stuff I’ve Played: Ark – Survival Evolved
Anyone who knows me knows that the game I talk most about…
Issue #231 – The Martian
We may be in a new golden age of science fiction. While…
Stuff I’ve Seen: The Little Prince
This is one of those movies you want to recommend despite its…
Stuff I’ve Seen: Beauty and the Beast
I’ve wanted to talk about this for a while now, ever since…
Star Wars: Rogue One. I liked it, but…
Okay, this is going to have spoilers. Some might say that you…
No Man’s Sky – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
I love space sims. The more immersive, the better. Ideally, I want…
Ghostbusters (2016)
Anyone who knows me knows I looked at the prospect of a…
Issue #230 – Elite: Reclamation
Elite was the first open-ended “space sim” video game, released back in…
Issue #229 – Mass Effect
Adapting and expanding from movies or TV shows is one thing. Video…
Issue #228 – Star Trek: The Great Starship Race
For the next few installments I’m going to look at adaptations…
Issue #226 – Fat Riker
Most of the books I write about are big hitters, either classics,…
Issue #225 – Inferno
I used to have it in for Dan Brown. Seriously, I didn’t…
Issue #224 – Around the World in Eighty Days
For me, this is where it all began. Before I ever tried…
Issue #223 – Soon I Will Be Invincible
Crossing mediums is tricky business. People always say, “the book was better…
Issue #222—Serenity – Leaves on the Wind
Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand…
Issue #221- The Stainless Steel Rat
When a friend of mine told me about Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel…
Issue #220 – In Memory of Sir Terry Pratchett
The recent passing of Sir Terry was far from unexpected, but sudden…
Issue #219 – Timeline
When it comes to writing fiction, how much research do you really…
Issue #218 – The Martian Chronicles
‘Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired…
Issue #217 – On Basilisk Station
When SF fans talk about starship captains, the question of Captain Janeway…
Issue #216 – The Ship Who Sang
When I thought of science fiction as a kid, I tended…
Issue #215 – More Than Magic
Adult Literature in the Geek Age Last month I looked at Young…
Issue #214 – Harry Potter and the Mysterious Teen/Young Adult Novel
“A young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”…
Issue #213 – Three Sides of a Genre: The Zombie Story
Braaaaains… Funny how the most recognizable thing about zombies actually comes from…
Issue #212 – The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
“I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories.…
Issue #211 – The Tipping Point
Much to my shame, I don’t often read non-fiction. There are so…
Issue #210 – The Science of Discworld
Some people are absolutely fascinated by science, but find how it’s taught…
Issue #209 – Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy
A long time ago, in a galaxy… well this galaxy… It is…
Issue #208 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
To say that Geek has become Chic in recent years is…
Issue #207 – Carter Beats The Devil
If you were a fan of the films The Prestige or The…
Issue #206 – On Writing
Have you ever thought about being a writer? I’ve wanted to be…
Issue #205 – Promethea
Moore Meta, Moore Problems. If I were to sum up Alan…
Issue #204 – Captain Blood
Captain Blood: His Odyssey, by Rafael Sabatini Sometimes you see a movie and…
Issue #203 – Edison’s Conquest of Mars
The War of the Worlds is one of my favorite classic science…
Issue #202 – Jasper Fforde
The Unfilmable Author Perhaps one of geekdom’s best known authors is Terry…
Issue #201 – Blue Ant Trilogy
Welcome to the Worrrld of Tomorrow! The Recent Works of William Gibson…
Issue #200 – Three Sides of a Genre: The Invasion Story
Wolverines! If that battle cry means anything to you, then you…
Issue #199 – Space Captain Smith
Ripping Yarns Within the British Space Empire For those of you who…