Oblivion – Spoiler Free Movie Review
Zachary A. Matzo
Oblivion, despite a marketing push to the contrary, is unequivocally not a “Tom Cruise” movie. Sure, the trailer was debuted months ahead of time during a high profile Super Bowl…
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Hemlock Grove – Season One Review
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
On certain rare occasions, Netflix releases a show that it made in house. Hemlock Grove is their first foray into anything science fiction/fantasy/horror related (that I know of). There’s an…
Sci-Fi Book Club – May 2013: Dune by Frank Herbert
Lisa Taylor
In May, our Science Fiction Book Club will be reading Dune by Frank Herbert, which won the Hugo Award in 1966, and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune…
The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez
Dan Hanks
The Daedalus Incident is one of those books that for many will be hard to pin down. A not-so-simple tale of adventure on the high seas of…well, nothing…it initially pops…
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Robbie Cameron
Morat Gurgeh is bored. The game player has reached the apex of his profession and lives a privileged and hedonistic life on his own mountain range playing games, writing papers…
2013 Hugo Award Nominees
Overlord
Just a quickie, the Hugo Award Nominees have just been announced, thought visitors might be interested: Best Novel (1113 ballots) – 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) – Blackout by…
Sci-Fi Book Club – April 2013: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
In April, our Science Fiction book club will be reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov, which won Hugo Award for Best all time novel series (1966). “One of the great masterworks…
Nina D’Aleo Interview
Last month I reviewed the outstanding science-fiction/fantasy novel The Last City. This month I’ve been fortunate enough to chat (time zones allowing) with its Australian author, the lovely Nina D’Aleo,…
Ack-Ack Macaque by Gareth L. Powell
Alister Davison
Let’s start with the blurb. In 1944, Britain’s best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed ‘Ack-Ack Macaque’. The trouble is, Ack-Ack is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey,…
Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin
Ryan Howse
George R. R. Martin is best known for his high fantasy epic, A Song of Ice and Fire. Yet he is an endlessly inventive writer, and long before ASOIAF, he…
Sci-Fi Book Club – March 2013: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
The Sci-Fi Book will be reading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War in March. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. “John Perry did two things…
The Last City by Nina D’Aleo
The Last City by debut author Nina D’Aleo is marketed as Blade Runner meets Perdido Street Station. Two undoubted classics. Told by two critically acclaimed storytellers. It’s quite the set-up…