As the fourth season of Stranger Things debuts on Netflix, I asked myself if I should plough right in or did I need to refresh my memory a bit on season 3. Then I realised I hadn't ever rewatched a season, so it felt time to go right back to the beginning! We start on … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 1)
After the news that she has a rare and terminal health condition, Sarah (Karen Gillan) allows a salesman to talk her into being cloned, to 'save her love ones from pain'. The clone (also Gillan) will spend Sarah's last few months with her, learning to duplicate her in every way - or so goes the … Continue reading Dual (2022)
"Footsteps rescued me from my nightmare." This book threw me from the get-go, as it starts off on a sailing ship, the Demeter, in the 1800s, following the coast of Norway northwards to find a mysterious 'Edifice'. We're introduced to Dr Silas Coade, who splits his time between tending to the crew - including a trepanning treatment, … Continue reading Eversion – Alastair Reynolds
"Yaz had walked on water her entire life, and now in this place where it fell molten from the skies they planned to drown her in the stuff." And finally, the end not just of the Book of the Ice trilogy, but a story begun in Red Sister that, according to the author, ties in with no fewer … Continue reading The Girl and the Moon – Mark Lawrence
"How far I've come, and how little I have to show for it." We first met Zax in Doors of Sleep, as he learned to deal with a mysterious condition that saw him travel to another world every time he fell asleep. I said in my review for the first installment that it was mostly world-building … Continue reading Prison of Sleep – Tim Pratt
When Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds) travels back from 2050 to put right what once went wrong (urm, wrong show, sorry!), he instead manages to crash land in 2022 where his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell) is dealing with both the school bullies, the recent death of his father (Mark Ruffalo), and a mother (Jennifer Garner) not … Continue reading The Adam Project (2022)
"'Jamie Gray!' Rob Sanders popped his head out of his office door and waved at me, grinning. 'Come on down. Let's do this thing.'" Jamie is not having a good pandemic. His <insert rude words here> of a boss has fired him for having a good idea, and the only job he can get is … Continue reading The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi
"The ship fled between the stars." The fools have finally done it: launched the nukes and started the end of the human race. Except, 75 years later, humanity still exists out in the cold darkness of space, on a vast fleet of arks. How they got there is a discovery for the reader. Eryn is … Continue reading Stars and Bones – Gareth Powell
Back when Star Wars was new and exciting (ahem!), a mysterious, helmeted baddy by the name of Boba Fett went up against the original heroes of the series and met a sticky end. 'True' fans, however (ie not me!), read all the comics and canon/non-canon tales from the saga and already knew that a sarlacc's stomach … Continue reading The Book of Boba Fett (season 1)
In a universe controlled by dominant noble houses, a political power struggle is about to erupt on the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. The emperor has decreed that House Harkonnen will no longer control the planet and the universe's only source of Spice, the substance required for interstellar travel and thus the most valuable … Continue reading Dune (2021)
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