A review by Nalini Haynes Hugh Stanton travels back in time to 1914 to change the twentieth century so it doesn’t end up in the …
Speculative fiction
Star Trek TNG s01e05: Where No One Has Gone Before
A review by Nalini Haynes Spoilers, Sweetie Kosinski (Stanley Kamel) is an arrogant engineer hurtled into the Admiralty’s good books when his gobbledygook engineering formula …
Star Trek TNG s01e04: The Last Outpost
A review by Nalini Haynes The USS Enterprise pursues what they suspect is a Ferengi ship. The Ferengi are little more than rumours to Federation …
Vox by Christina Dalcher
A review by Nalini Haynes Jean McClellan is a wife and mother, removed from the workforce by white male supremacists who’ve decided the way to …
Pirate Songs in the Accessing the Future anthology
A review by Nalini Haynes I began reading the Accessing the Future anthology (edited by Kathryn Allan and Djibril al-Ayad) at the beginning because that seemed to …
Adam Richard: There is only Zuul
Adam Richard is a comedian, writer, radio presenter and media personality. He’s involved in everything from musical quiz show Spicks and Specks to sci fi …
Persepolis Rising by James S A Corey
A review by Nalini Haynes Persepolis Rising is the 7th book in The Expanse novel series that is entwined with 6 ‘short fictions’ located as …
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
A review by Nalini Haynes Lila Norcross is the sheriff of a small town in Midwest America, struggling to hold it together after learning that …
How to stop time by Matt Haig
A review by Nalini Haynes In 16th century England, Tom Hazard’s mother is accused and tried for witchcraft because Tom doesn’t appear to have aged in …
Leviathan Wakes vs The Expanse
A review/commentary by Nalini Haynes Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away… Actually, in this galaxy. Actually, in this solar system. The …
Rise and Fall of the D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
A review by Nalini Haynes Melisande Stokes is a linguist at Harvard, enticed away from academic life by Tristan Lyons, a mysterious man claiming to …
Kong: Skull Island
A review by Nalini Haynes A US soldier and a Japanese fighter crash on Wonder Woman’s island. There can’t be two islands that look the …
Logan (2017)
A review by Nalini Haynes Logan (Hugh Jackman) is back. Again. At least this time he wasn’t in a remake of his own origin story. …
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
A review by Nalini Haynes Etcetera and Seth attend a Communist Party: an event where a lot of people gather at a disused factory, get …
Danger Mouse (2015)
A review by Nalini Haynes A long time ago in the time of the dinosaurs, Danger Mouse and Penfold (two actual albeit cartoon mice) saved …