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The Best of Science Fiction in Books, Films and on TV

  • THE EARLY POHL (1976) by Frederik Pohl

    This time out, I’m going to take a look at a collection of very early stories by one of my favourite SF writers, who also happened to be one of the best editors in the SF industry, and one of the true titans of the SF world, Frederik Pohl. The eight stories and single poem…

  • Some New Telefantasy Books

    In my last couple of posts, I’ve been listing a bunch of Gerry Anderson-related items (mainly DVDs) that I’ve bought recently. Admittedly, I’ve been on a bit of a roll in recent weeks with all things Anderson, but I haven’t been neglecting my other favourite TV shows. I’ve also been picking up a few good…

  • Some New Gerry Anderson DVDs

    Last time out, I posted about a few new DVDs that I’d recently picked up, namely Nigel Kneale’s creepy 1972 television horror film The Stone Tape, and two DVD box sets comprising the entire twenty-four episode run of Gerry Anderson’s classic sci-fi television series UFO. Well, this time out, I’ve gotten my hands on two…

  • Some New DVDs

    Some nice DVDs arrived from Amazon UK today. Two lovely boxsets of Gerry Anderson’s complete classic UFO, all twenty-four episodes (each boxset containing four DVDs), and a BBC ninety-minute television movie from 1972, Nigel Kneale’s classic horror/supernatural tale, The Stone Tape. UFO has been a huge favourite of mine since I first saw it on…

  • Earliest Comics Memories (Part 1)

    I was looking through some of my old UK Annuals earlier today, which brought back a lot of old childhood memories for me about the very earliest comics that I ever read. I started buying my first comics when I was about four years old, which would have made that sometime during 1965, and I…

  • Some Good New Movies on Film4 (25th Feb 2016)

    Last night was a pretty good night on television for sci-fi films. We had three in a row on favourite channel Film4, which pretty much took up the entire night\’s viewing. We started off with the Men in Black 2 (2002) sequel, a fun film featuring lots of great action scenes and good character sequences…

  • Andersonic 20 Is Out Now!

    The good news is that Issue 20 of my favourite Gerry Anderson fanzine, Andersonic, has just been released, so it\’s time for my usual plug. So, what\’s on the menu this issue? The current issue features: Brian Johnson interview – a new interview with Space 1999\’s FX director. Brian also talks about his work on…

  • Some New Books – January 2016

    I haven\’t bought any new SF books in ages now, but, with Christmas behind me and a few quid spare in my pocket, I took the notion over the past couple of weeks to trawl Ebay.co.uk for some books. Actually, none of them are \”new\”, as there\’s not a lot of modern SF that I…

  • THE MEN AND THE MIRROR (1973) by Ross Rocklynne

    This time out, we have a single author collection of short fiction by SF Pulps stalwart, Ross Rocklynne (real name Ross Louis Rocklin, February 21, 1913 – October 29, 1988). Rocklynne was very active in the SF magazines from the early-1930s up until the mid-1950s, when he disappeared off the scene for more than a…

  • Doctor Who: Heaven Sent

    Now THAT was a cracker! In my opinion, Heaven Sent, written by Steven Moffat, is a great follow-up to Face the Raven, the best Doctor Who episode in a long, long time, and definitely the best episode of Series 9 so far. It was dark, scary, moody, mindbending, intelligent – it\’s just how I love…

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