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Phantom From Space (1953)
film Normally I would warn people of spoilers but it’s impossible to spoil his film. Having just watched a film about nostalgia, I thought it appropriate to metaphorically travel back in time, to...
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Redeye by Michael Shean
book Redeye by Michael Shean (Curiosity Quills Press, 2013) Wonderland Cycle 2 is Bobbi January’s story set some two years after the fight at the Genefex Corporation left her frightened for herself and...
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Oblivion (2013)
film I suppose Oblivion (2013) makes a change. Instead of dealing with the crash-bang defeat of an alien invasion and stopping the cameras rolling before Earth gets to do the clean-up operation,...
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The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
book The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu (Angry Robot, 2013) is playing in the sandbox of male fantasy wish-fulfillment. From the earliest days of the comics, boys have been presented with heroes who...
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Pacific Rim (2013)
film Pacific Rim (2013) reminds us that alien invasions can come from different directions. Conventionally, the pesky beasts load themselves into star ships and fly here. This gives us some time to...
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The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell
book The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell (pseudonym of John G Hemry) (Ace, 2011) sees me going back in time to satisfy my curiosity. I was intrigued rather than impressed...
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Life on the Preservation by Jack Skillingstead
book For some inexplicable reason probably connected with the increasingly rapid death of brain cells, this book reminded me of several works from the 1950s. I start with Earth vs the Flying Saucers,...
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Irredeemable by Jason Sizemore
book Irredeemable by Jason Sizemore (Seventh Star Press, 2014) is a collection of eighteen stories, seven of which are original. “Caspar” strips down the setting to the bare minimum and has us view a...
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Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress
book Back in the 1950s when I was growing up, one section of the world’s population became fixated by the possibility of nuclear armageddon. Wherever you turned, the media was full of news stories...
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Godzilla: Final Wars or ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ (2004)
film After a long break, I decided to watch a film and, because I never like to be wholly predictable, chose Godzilla: Final Wars or ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ (2004). This is somewhat perverse since so many films...
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