Dark Horse Comics has just announced that William Gibson’s unmade Alien 3 script is going to be made into a comic book. On the face of it, this is a brash move. The script is now decades old, and I’m sure that many casual Alien…
Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White
An original Alien book is something special in my reading calendar, and when Alex White’s The Cold Forge hit my radar late last year I was immediately interested. But that interest was tempered with a natural apprehension: in recent years, we’ve seen some serious letdowns to the Alien franchise. I’m still bitter from the experience…
Top 5 SF movies of 2017
The year is drawing to a close, and it’s time to look back on the highs of science fiction… For me, this has been a strange year so far as SF on the big screen is concerned. There have been some incredible films, sure, but they seem to have been few and far between. I’ve…
Movie review: ALIEN: COVENANT
Ridley Scott is responsible for some of my favourite films of all time. BLADE RUNNER approaches perfection on so many levels. BLACK HAWK DOWN is a seminal war movie. But it’s really ALIEN that has always captivated me; a film that I return to again and again, and which has spawned (much like the titular…
Book review: ALIENS: BUG HUNT (edited by Jonathan Maberry)
The ALIEN expanded universe now covers many media. We’ve had comic books, novels, video games and more recently even a new board game. However, BUG HUNT treads new ground. Sure, we’ve seen original fiction set in the ALIEN universe before, in the form of Dark Horse comics and novels, but this is the first time…
THE ETERNITY WAR: EXODUS
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