Tag Archives: Blogs

GUEST BLOG Visiting Underground Worlds

Author Kristen Britain reveals how her very real time down in the Mammoth Cave system influences her fiction This is a guest blog by US author Kristen Britain whose latest book Mirror Sight is available now… (opens in new tab) One of my favourite sections of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord …

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HOLLYWOOD HYPERSPACE Being A Doctor Who Fan In America

A lifelong Doctor Who fan, our LA correspondent Joe McCabe’s latest Hollywood Hyperspace column explains what the TARDIS looked like from the other side of the Atlantic. (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) As a US citizen, it’s difficult for me to describe what I love about Doctor …

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BLOG Women of Defiance #2: Stahma Tarr

(opens in new tab) Yes, Datak Tarr is one heck of a slum lord. He’s a big fish in a rather small pond, and he likes it that way. Who wouldn’t? After all, Datak has a lot of power in Defiance. But Datak has a blind spot, and it shares …

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BLOG Year One Cures A Text Dread For Dredd

This is my 100th blog on the SFX website. In my first blog I wrote about my two biggest sci-fi loves: 2000AD ’s Judge Dredd and Star Wars . So it seems only fitting that this centenary blog should be about one of those subjects (but with a guest cameo …

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BLOG Hot Pick: The Doubleclicks “Nothing To Prove”

The Doubleclicks are one of my favourite bands. Sisters Angela and Aubrey Webber play the cello and the ukulele and write clever, funny, beautiful songs about Dungeons & Dragons , Mr Darcy, Velociraptors and geek culture. I was lucky enough to see them at W00tstock in San Diego last year …

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BLOG Professor Elemental Interview

Professor Elemental is a titan of a man, striding heroically across the boundaries of science, science fiction, music and comedy with a jaunty tune being emitted from his Musical Trousers ( that is a euphemism, right? – ed ). The Professor, who rose to prominence a little while back with …

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BLOG Six-Gun Gorilla COMIC REVIEW

Blue-3425 is going to die. He’s okay with it too, because he’s signed on to be a Holehead. The Holeheads are expendable troops fitted with psychic tumours that transmit everything they see back to Earth. In return for this brave action, and, of course, their deaths, any surviving members will …

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BLOG Is That A Fox In Your Pocket?

The fiction small press, especially, is all a bit, “It was the worst of times, it was the best of times,” at the moment. It’s the worst of times because the large publishers are amalgamating, Amazon is in the processing assimilating a good chunk of the industry and it’s very …

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