Science Fiction and Fantasy Comment and Reviews
The Electric State is a difficult book to review in light of the Arthur C. Clarke Award as although the book is a story it is not a novel. Stalenhag is a renonwned artist and concept designer and what he presents here is a series of futuristic landscape paintings that is accompanied by a story... Continue Reading →
I am Mother is another film offering from Netflix. The film is essentially a bottle show. with only two actors and special effects. The premise is that life on earth has been extinguished by an event and thousands of embryos are stored safely in an underground vault ready to repopulate the world. The vault is... Continue Reading →
Rosewater by Tade Thompson is the first of this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award books I read. It set me up well for this year’s selection being a book I would not normally have read. Set in the near future of Nigeria, the books hero is a gifted psychic, an ability which has emerged in... Continue Reading →
The wait for the next series of Stranger Things finally ended on the 4th July when Season 3 dropped on Netflix. Stranger Things was one of those TV masterpieces that I was never sure would survive a second or even third season. The first series was beautifully put together and putting so much lightening in... Continue Reading →
The Dark Tower is a film adaptation of a series of books by Stephen King. King is a master of horror and science fiction, many of his works have been adapted successfully and I am not sure if this has. The problem is that I have not read the source material so I am judging... Continue Reading →
This book was going to be an interesting one to read and review. I am no fan of the new canon of books that have been released since the abolition of the old canon and its relegation to legends status, but I had a great love of the X-wing series of books. I enjoyed stepping... Continue Reading →
Normally when a book is adapted for TV I have already read the book and had my own ideas about how it should be screened. In this case, despite having nearly read this book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett some years ago I never really got a grip on the novel. I have read... Continue Reading →
Wandering Earth is a Chinese sci-fi film directed by Frant Gwo based on the book by Liu Cixin. This film came to Netflix this month with English dubbing. Set in the future our sun has started going supernova. Earths solution is to turn the whole earth into a spaceship by building massive motors and flying... Continue Reading →
Its that time of year again. In 12 days time the win of the 2019 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science fiction will be awarded. As usual I am late to the party but like last year I will read all 6 nominees and review them on here. The shortlist is: Semiosis by Sue Burke... Continue Reading →
Inquisitor: Martyr is one of a growing range of Games Workshop IP that have made their way on to the computer game market. Set in the world of Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor, as the name suggests makes you the hero of your own Inquisition tale. The Martyr is a derelict ship found drifting in space, you... Continue Reading →
Into the Nebula 