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Film Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaFury Road is nearly impossible to follow, but Furiosa is a solid, entertaining, and well-made addition to the Mad Max universe. In...
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Film Review: The Fall GuyTip your local stunt people The Fall Guy starts out with a premise that I don’t think anyone can really dispute: that stunt people...
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Let's have a look at Tales of the Valiant, an alternative to D&D 5eThe rules of Tales of the Valiant are backwards-compatible with 5e, but include several improvements both in pure mechanics and in presentation...
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Hail to the King: A Tribute to Roger CormanRoger Corman, whose eight-decade career in Hollywood earned him nicknames like “The King of the B Movies,” died last Thursday at the age of 98. I...
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Book Review: Freeset by Sarina DahlanThe sequel to Reset continues the story of the post-apocalyptic world of the Four Cities Sarina Dahlan’s Reset...
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Film Review: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareWhen Germans delve and Britons span, who was then the gentleman? There is undoubtedly a certain romance to commandos. The very term...
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Book Review: The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. SuiPolitical plotting and elaborate shenanigans done right To quote a certain famous someone: I love mess. I love emotional tangles, and...
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First Contact: MetropolisA dazzling window through which a century of science fiction can be glimpsed Economic inequality is bad. It's unfair, cruel, bad, unfair,...
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Review: The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel KaplanA beautifully structured story of duality and Jewish-flavoured mythology Jews in Inquisition-era Spain are having a bit of a moment this...
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Double Feature: What's with all the imaginary friends?There's a menacing whiff of unprocessed nostalgia in the Zeitgeist Let's see: during a period of heavy stress and existential...
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Book Review: The Familiar by Leigh BardugoA step somewhat outside of the author's usual métier... but plus ça change for Leigh Bardugo, it seems Luzia is a maid in 15th-century...
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First Contact: The TerminatorA machine monster chase film with a romantic, time loop twist The Terminator debuted in theaters in 1984. I’m embarrassed to admit...
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First Contact: Porco RossoIt turns out, Alex would watch anime when pigs fly I feel, at odd moments, that the fact that I haven’t watched all that much anime...
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Book Review: Warped State by Jo MilesA space opera that puts a burgeoning queer interspecies relationship front and center. Jasper Wilder has a number of problems, but he has an...
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Introducing the First Contact ProjectWhat's it like to experience a classic for the first time? As a very wise person once said , there's no science fiction canon. There's no...
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Book Review: So Let Them Burn by Kamilah ColeA YA, Jamaican-inspired, dragon-filled fantasy dealing with friendship, family, and cultural clashes. The premise of...
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Adri and Joe Talk About Books: 2024 Hugo Award Finalists (finally!)Joe : We’ve had a few weeks to sit on the announcement and start the always exciting process of trying to read and watch all the...
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Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the ApesDoes civilization have to mean subjugation? In the long chain of ancestors that span the millennia before the rise of humans, the earliest...
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Book Review: Inverted Frontier by Linda NagataThe latest (and possibly penultimate) volume in the Inverted Frontier series has the explorers on Dragon and Griffin have a true first contact,...
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Book Review: The Brides of High Hill by Nghi VoAnother beautifully written entry into the Singing Hills cycle, but departing from the previous books' structural devices... or does it?...
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Roundtable Interview: Broken Olive BranchesBroken Olive Branches is a charity anthology; over 30 authors in the horror community donated stories to help the civilians of Palestine....
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Review: Boy Kills WorldSchadenfreude: the Film There’s something gleefully demented about a certain sort of action movie that turns what would be horrific in...
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Video Game Review: Mass Effect Legendary EditionSometimes you can go back home In 2003, Canadian developer BioWare released Knights of the Old Republic —a real-time RPG based in the...
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Review: The Apothecary DiariesAn appealing fantasy mystery dealing with difficult issues of gender and class through the eyes of a young apothecary There’s no...
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Review: For Love of Magic by Simon GreenA myth about understanding why we love myths—a metamyth, if you will Fantasy is a genre built on myth. That is what J. R. R. Tolkien was...
