Summer’s here and the time is right to get those summer reads started. Not sure what to pick up this month? Well the team here have packed up a picnic, poured the Pimms and pulled out our Best Sci Fi Books for June 2023. From futuristic military-action to time travelling circuses there’s a little something
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We are living in a golden age of martial arts fandom. As a kid in the ‘90s, I used to have to order DVDs in the mail or stalk the foreign language cinema section of Blockbuster Video to score the latest martial arts film or recent UFC event. But today, we have a plethora of
The history of Marvel Comics would look a lot different without Christian Cooper. Then credited as “Chris Cooper,” the New York-based comics nerd and Marvel die-hard was the company’s first openly gay writer and editor. In the 1990s, Cooper worked on Marvel fare that included characters like Ghost Rider, Werewolf by Night, and Vengeance. He
This post contains light spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Among the many pleasures of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was its celebration of all things Spider-Man. The 2018 film filled the screen with webheads, letting audiences delight in all of the variations of people and creatures who can do anything a spider can. Into
The shortlist for the 37th Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year has been announced, and it includes authors that have never made the shortlist before. The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was
The Panharmonion Chronicles is a gritty thriller trilogy that grapples with the nature of time, reality and identity. The heady blend of science-fiction, horror and alternative history also includes some levity with hints of wry humour, pop culture and homage to music lovers of all genres. The story follows Alex Campbell, who is a Canadian
I’m certainly not the first author to create an amateur sleuth who raises the dead. But in the Lavington Windsor series, our jobbing necromancer Toni gets to ask the murder victims who killed them, and I had so much fun creating situations where the poor old shambling corpses didn’t have a clue who had bumped
This post contains spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #26. In 1940, MLJ Publishers had a problem. Their standout artist Jack Cole (best known as the creator of Plastic Man) had left the company, abandoning the hit series Pep Comics and its star the Comet. Without Cole’s pencils, the Comet didn’t pop in the same way, and
MAYDAY MAYDAY!!! It’s book overload this month! There are so many great new releases coming out that we just had to count down some of the best Sci Fi Books for May 2023. (We may have even thrown in the odd Fantasy and Horror tale just for good measure! From mysterious islands of “eternal life”
I’ll admit it: I have a problem with magic. Not so much writing it, thankfully, since I write fantasy novels for a living. In fact, the six books in my Spellslinger books delve into all kinds of elaborate magic systems and various types of mages. Since its launch a few years ago, the series has
Robotech is a franchise that keeps on keeping on and most of that is thanks to comics. After making a big splash with its original anime in 1985, the series mostly went quiet but comics were almost always there to fill in the gap. From Comico Comics to Eternity Comics, Academy Comics, Wildstom, and more,
This post contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Who is Adam Warlock? Questions like that are common among MCU fans who haven’t read any comics featuring him! Since the universe launched in 2008 with Iron Man, the MCU has been bringing oddballs like Volstagg the Voluminous and MODOK to the big screen,
This article is part of our Collector’s Digest series powered by: Twenty years ago, the idea of a Guardians of the Galaxy movie was absurd. The team was a ragtag bunch of weirdos, disconnected from the main Marvel Universe as it was set almost a thousand years in the future, with odd powers, strange enemies,
The Guardians of the Galaxy are heading to the big screen one last time for Vol. 3. While it appears that the third instalment will mark the end of this current iteration of the team in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there is every possibility that the roster of heroes will evolve and change for a
The forces of tyranny can come in many different forms across many different genres. Sometimes it’s a corrupt government ruling over a strange tower, known by name by those who strive for advancement and favor. Sometimes it’s a cruel government that monitors every waking moment of its citizens, the purpose of its rules hidden and
When Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek, he summed it up in one of the best-known elevator pitches in genre – “Wagon Train to the stars!”. Yet what seems like a throwaway comparison, the classic “name something popular that your thing is like” technique for getting money men onside, actually speaks to a deeper truth about
Jaime Green’s The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos traces the history of our understanding of what and where life in the universe could be, from Galileo and Copernicus through to our current tracking of exoplanets in the ‘Goldilocks zone’, where life akin to ours on Earth might exist. Along the way, Jaime Green
When Worf makes his entrance into the third season of Star Trek: Picard, he does so in a flurry of bat’leth and blood. Brutally killing the Ferengi Sneed to rescue Picard’s associate Raffi, Worf enters in a manner becoming of a Klingon warrior. But then, his mood suddenly changes from one of bloodlust to one
Drip, drip, drop there’s been more a few little April showers already this month, so we thought we’d gather together some of the best sci fi, fantasy and horror books you could be reading to help keep you safe, warm and dry this month. Hooray for SFF! David Wellington 6th April – Orbit Paradise-1 is
Featuring poems from 112 women (cis, trans, and non-binary femmes) around the world, Under Her Eye is an upcoming poetry showcase, with all net proceeds from the collection being donated to The Pixel Project. We’re delighted to reveal the showcase’s stunning cover above, with art by noted horror artist Lynne Hansen, and we’re also publishing two
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of humanity’s encounter with a highly advanced alien race known as the Overlords. Set in the mid-twentieth century, the novel begins with the arrival of the Overlords on Earth, who assume a benevolent role in guiding humanity towards a more prosperous and peaceful future. Over the
As we all know, Warner Bros. Pictures is releasing four DC movies this year: Shazam! Fury of the Gods is already out (and, er, very likely done), while The Flash speeds into theaters in June and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will arrive in time to celebrate the year-end holidays. Sitting right in the middle
Digimon, as a franchise, has always had the perception of being Pokémon‘s less successful younger brother. That’s bound to happen when two Japanese media franchises choose to name themselves after the pneumonic of “Adjective + Monster,” with Pokémon meaning “Pocket Monsters” and Digimon meaning “Digital Monsters.” That perception, however, isn’t entirely fair. Digimon never reached
Roadside Picnic by Russian brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is set in a dystopian world that, in the aftermath of an alien invasion, has been segmented into ‘zones’ which are littered with mysterious artifacts and strange phenomena. A black market trade has grown from the scavenging and sale of these forgotten objects, but gaining access
Said to be “The Hunger Games meets Mortal Kombat, with a hint of The Matrix” The Combat Codes is the first book in Alexander Darwin’s debut, action-packed and character-driven science fiction and fantasy trilogy. Set in a world where the fate of empires is determined by battle-hardened warriors who are trained to compete in brutal
It’s been a mega 45 years since the original broadcast of the first season’s final episode of the classic sci-fi series Blake’s 7, and to celebrate, audio production company Big Finish Productions will publish a stunning limited set of Blake’s 7 hardback novelisations called Blake’s 7: Origins and we have an exclusive excerpt! Blake’s 7 debuted
This article contains nothing but Shazam! Fury of the Gods spoilers. Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a big movie. It’s essentially a team movie, with not only Billy Batson, but his entire foster family bringing a total of six superheroes to the table (not to mention the presence of Djimon Hounsou’s Wizard). And they’re
We said that The Kaiju Preservation Society “brings a welcome dose of impish heart and humour to a story with grand scale and grand scales” in our review and now author John Scalzi is back with Starter Villain, another unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds: present-day Earth. We’re delighted to reveal
Forty years ago, the world changed in Jane Hennigan’s Moths. Toxic threads left behind by mutated moths infected men and boys around the globe. Some were killed quietly in their sleep, others became crazed killers, wildly dangerous and beyond help. All seemed hopeless. But humanity adapted, healed and moved on. Now matriarchs rule, and men
“Happiness is a Warm Gun” isn’t the only connection between The Beatles and Peanuts. Both groups exemplified the optimism of the 1960s era. Charles M. Schulz’s Charlie Brown was so assured of positive outcomes he repeatedly tried to kick a field-goal-placed football held by the town’s resident five-cents-a-session psychiatrist, Lucy, in spite of the knowledge
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