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This is a real feel good film for me; it always makes me grin and leaves me in a good mood. It seems to have been made with affection and respect for Douglas and the subject matter. The cast are on the whole great, although while I don’t think Mos Def as Ford Prefect is actually bad, the way he...

Much as I love books I simply do not have the space for all the ones that I have, let alone the ones I would like to have. I still buy “real” books, mostly nice big “special” books, while my ebook reader fills the same niche in my collection as all those second hand paperbacks that I’ve always...

I wish I liked John Crowley more. There seems to be a subtle magical quality to his work, just the sort of thing I’d expect to like, similar to Ray Bradbury, but while I really enjoy Bradbury, with Crowley most of the time it seems to be too subtle or elusive for me to catch. I started...

The “greatest living author” is a tough one, but I think there’s a case for saying that Stephen Baxter is/will be one of the “greats”. Yes he does have his weak points, but Arthur C Clarke is classed as a “great” too despite having similar weaknesses. In common with some other “hard” SF...

I think a lot of people still think of SF as ray gun and alien stories for adolescent boys. I would also imagine that most people’s experience of SF is from mainstream film and TV, and which will just reinforce that impression. I also know people who find SF just too way out to engage with...

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Spindly grotesque humanoid creatures start appearing out of the ground, causing increasing amounts of havoc as it becomes apparent that they mean trouble. They don’t emerge from tunnels, but instead they and their machines seem to be able to move through soil as if it was water. The creatures...

I think I know this one; it sounds exactly like “Seahorse in the Sky” by Edmund Cooper. I’ve been lurking for a while, reading lots of really interesting threads, but I’m now looking for a book I’m trying to identify. But before I post about that I’m pleased that my first contribution is...