This review originally appeared in Interzone #284, November–December 2019). The cover of this short novel has traps for the unwary reader. ...

Sydney Sweeney, who also produces, plays Cecilia, a young American woman whose church has closed due to lack of attendance. Surviving a chil...

This review originally appeared in TQF73  (April 2023). Jennifer Walters is a lawyer who gains the power to transform into She-Hulk, thanks ...

More than a mark: lesson on compassionate leadership disguised as zombie story. During his westward journey, exile Finnegan (aka Finn) encou...

Chesney Armstruther should be having the time of his life. The events of the two previous novels in the To Hell and Back trilogy ( The Damne...

This review originally appeared in Interzone #284 (November–December 2019). Eye-catching cover art by Julie Dillon gives a good idea of wha...

After a huge earthquake hits Japan, a 35-year-old single mother and journalist, Minako (Masami Nagasawa), drowns in the subsequent tsunami. ...

This review previously appeared in Interzone #290-291 (March-June 2021). The rogue SecUnit (an android "made of cloned human tissue, ...

Aimless woman desperate for a man finds mysterious woman desperate for a friend in dully taught lesson on female autonomy. Cackle is a call...

1989: the unfortunately named Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) has a new home and a new school. When Lisa was a little younger, her mum was ki...

This review originally appeared in  TQF73  (April 2023). Archaeologists in the country of Kahndaq, currently in the grip of a private securi...

Madame Web has been given a lot of stick for being a bad superhero film, which in my view is a complete misunderstanding of what it is. It’...

This review originally appeared in TQF65 (December 2019). Some time ago, the world was conquered and enslaved by beings who subsequently l...

Overlords in saviours’ clothing: anthology takes a shot at capitalism with mixed results. Despite its silly title, this horror anthology sym...

A woman tries to commit suicide, throwing herself off a bridge. We later find out that she was pregnant, with a husband who would have drive...

This review originally appeared in Interzone #285 (January–February 2020), which also included a wide-ranging interview with the author. I...

Season 4 of For All Mankind , Apple's big-budget alternate-history science fiction show, jumps forward eight years. In their world, Stan...

About twenty-five years ago, in the year 1499 (New Reckoning) five of the galaxy's worst criminals, known collectively as the Demon Prin...

Unrequited love and somnambulant sculpting: alternating timelines explore mother/daughter bonds and suppression of women’s voices. Such a Pr...

All of Us Strangers tells the story of Adam (Andrew Scott), a gay writer in his forties, living alone in an empty London apartment block. H...