I briefly came across the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan in the mid-seventies when Futura/Orbit published the first 38 novels in the series, and…
20 CommentsOn and on I sped into futurity...
I briefly came across the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan in the mid-seventies when Futura/Orbit published the first 38 novels in the series, and…
20 CommentsThe BBC’s failed attempt to create the definitive set of the complete works of Shakespeare adapted for TV demonstrates just how hard to pin down…
Leave a CommentAt the end of his ground-breaking book One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Ilustration, 1840 – 1940 (1974), Anthony Frewin included an appendix on the…
1 CommentMy favourite John Hurt film has to be Michael Radford’s 1984, released in the same year, with Hurt as Winston Smith, Richard Burton as O’Brien…
2 CommentsLooking at the practicalities of even showing Abel Gance’s Napoleon makes you wonder how on earth it ever got made. Not only is the full…
Leave a CommentWhen Hideo Nakata’s Ring came out in 1998, followed by Ring 2 in 1999 – they looked like groundbreaking Japanese horror movies. The Japanese film…
Leave a CommentI have a huge soft spot for Prog Rock, well – to qualify that, I have a soft spot for a handful of Prog Rock…
Leave a CommentI guess, like many, I fell in love with the visual style of No Man’s Sky. The screenshots posted in the build up to its…
Leave a CommentJames Goddard has very kindly agreed to let me reprint his interview with Edmund Cooper from Science Fiction Monthly Volume 2 Number 4. This first…
13 CommentsThere’s a poignant anecdote that Terry Pratchett once told about a book signing. A young woman in the queue told him that her father was…
19 CommentsHere’s another film that seems pretty apt for the current state of the UK post-Brexit – Robert Fuest’s end of the world-lite version of Michael…
3 CommentsI’ve been scrabbling around for an appropriate metaphor for the colossally surreal act of self-harm the UK inflicted on itself 48 hours ago, and early…
2 CommentsHot on the heels of Peter A. Jones, here’s my tribute to another great SF artist who, sadly, is no longer with us. The vast…
4 CommentsOne of the strangest books to come out of the 1970s fantasy art imprint Paper Tiger had to be Bruce Pennington’s Eschatus (1976). I’ve already…
1 CommentAs a companion post to my review of Mansfield Dark’s Count Magnus and The Story of A Disappearance and an Appearance, Richard Mansfield very kindly…
4 CommentsUntil now I’ve always been left a bit disappointed by film and TV adaptations of M.R. James’ stories. Even acknowledged classics like Jonathan Miller’s 1968…
Leave a CommentWhat better way to recover from New Year’s Eve than a leisurely afternoon watching John Boorman’s cult classic Zardoz. Putting aside the seriously disturbing sight…
3 CommentsJonathan Jones wrote an article in The Guardian in which he stated that he had never read Terry Pratchett and had no intention of doing…
Leave a CommentFunnily enough it was Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle who turned me on to Dante. Their decidedly odd libertarian take on the original, Inferno, came…
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