Science Fiction and Fantasy Comment and Reviews
Who are you? What do you want? The two key questions that J.M Straczynski gave to us via the Vorlons and Shadows in Babylon 5 and two questions I aim to answer today. I started this blog on the 14th July to provide somewhere to express my reviews on the various science fiction and fantasy... Continue Reading →
2017 saw the return of one of the planets greatest franchise, Star Trek to the small screen. I grew up on The Next Generation (TNG) and reruns of the Original Series (TOS) and so was present for the launch of Deep Space Nine (DS9), Voyager (VOY) and Enterprise (ENT) all of which I enjoyed, but... Continue Reading →
Netflix is churning out an amazing amount of films that bridge the gap between hard sci-fi, lo-sci-fi and drama. Not all have the gravitas of what many would consider 'proper' movies but they are certainly improving. This July 2018 offering - How It Ends, is an interesting disaster film with a strong cast. It is... Continue Reading →
Sea of Rust is perhaps one of the most unique Sci-fi novels I have had the fortune to read. Its premise is a simple one, the collapse of humanity in the face of Robots and AI. So what you might say, this has been done before, Battlestar Galactica, AI and any number of books by... Continue Reading →
One of my passions aside from wildlife and sci-fi/fantasy is history and in particular Napoleonic History. I am a big hero of the Duke of Wellington and grew up on Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books. Last year, whilst waiting for the latest books in the series I am reading to come out I looked for a... Continue Reading →
American War is a funny sort of a book, in many ways it doesn't feel like a science fiction novel at all. Like the others in the shortlist this year, the focus is very much on the personal interactions of a small core of protagonists. The Scifi element comes from the setting. As the title... Continue Reading →
In February 2010 Star Trek Online began and I was so excited. I had watched the game's development with much anticipation and Star Trek Online (STO) was to be my first MMO and it led on to play Star Wars the Old Republic, Neverwinter and Elder Scrolls but it is still STO that I return... Continue Reading →
Star Wars is one of the most important Sci-fi brands to me along with Star Trek and Babylon 5 its is the pinnacle of what I hold dear. We have recently entered an era of new Star Wars but does this new era reflect the one that spawned it, and does that matter? Star Wars... Continue Reading →
'Spaceman of Bohemia' is an odd book. I think some of the strangeness comes from the fact that it may not have been originally written in English. Jaroslav Kalfar is from the Czech Republic and much of the novel is set in this eastern European setting. This is not a problem; in fact it was... Continue Reading →
'Gather the daughters' is a novel that is both disturbing and thought-provoking. It is impossible to read this book however and not be struck by its similarity to other works. The story is a mixture of 'The Handmaids Tale' and M.Night Shyamalan's 'The Village' Much of the darkest parts of Melamed's novel, and let's be... Continue Reading →
Into the Nebula 