Category: Review
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BLADE RUNNER 2049
Prepare to see things you’ve never seen before in this astonishing sci-fi sequel. In Brit 1982 Brit director Ridley Scott and star Harrison Ford created the most influential sci-fi film of the last 35 years. I love the original Blade Runner so much I was consumed with gut wrenching nerves immediately before seeing this new trip to Los…
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PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING
Bulldozing across the screen with the tone and intelligence of a low rent kids’ Saturday morning cartoon, this belated sci-fi sequel is a monotonous series of clanking CGI battles. I loved 2014’s original adventure which barely broke even due to it’s colossal budget. Costing less and looking as if it did, this lacks the former’s visual majesty,…
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The Vast of Night
Creepy, claustrophobic and immaculately constructed, this stylish and intriguing sci-fi mystery thriller pays loving homage to TV shows such as The Twilight Zone as it builds to a haunting and transcendent finale. Set in the 1950’s Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz have a lovely flirtatious chemistry as an earnest telephone operator and a cocky local…
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DRAGONFLIGHT
BY ANNE MCCAFFREY, 1968 This brisk and inventive breakout novel is a romantic coming of age medieval sci-fi fantasy, which sees a pair of unrelated orphans who’re each cheated of their birthright, brought together by fate to attempt to save their world from a malevolent cosmic spore. important and influential Originally published as three short…
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Xenogenesis
Xenogenesis (1969) by Miriam Allen deFord Full of extraordinary range, relevancy and variety, this anthology of 16 unconnected thought-provoking, sci-fi stories are by turns tremendously exciting, engaging and amusing. Each is deftly told and though recognisably sci-fi, they encompass other genres such as horror, adventure, and mystery. on a par with Asimov’s, I Robot Originally…
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