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Werthead
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Science fiction and fantasy blogger (Wertzone, Atlas of Ice & Fire), one-time Hugo Award nominee.
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Doctor Who Review Index (2025)

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Doctor Who Review Index (2025)
My quest to review every episode of Doctor Who  is one of the bigger projects I've undertaken on the blog, especially in recent years, and n...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 26 (and the TV Movie)

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Doctor Who: Season 26 and the TV Movie
The Doctor's travels with his companion Ace have returned him to Earth in the near future, where an interdimensional incursion sees him reun...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Video Game Review: The Outer Worlds 2

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The Outer Worlds 2
2362. The outer colony systems have mysteriously been cut off from Earth. An Earth Directorate investigation team is dispatched to the Arcad...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 25

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Doctor Who: Season 25
London, November 1963. A strange white-haired man said to be living in a junkyard with his granddaughter has disappeared, along with two of ...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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RUMOUR: Something may be up with Half-Life 3

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RUMOUR: Something may be up with HALF-LIFE 3
Here we go again. Almost quasi-credible rumours are swirling from previously-reliable Valve insiders (including those that broke the news of...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Book Review: Forge of the High Mage of Ian Cameron Esslemont

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Forge of the High Mage by Ian Cameron Esslemont
The Malazan Empire has completed its conquest of the Quon Tali continent and is mopping up a few rebellions and uprisings. However, Emperor ...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 24

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Doctor Who: Season 24
The TARDIS has been drawn off course with such force that the Doctor has been injured and forced to regenerate. The Rani takes advantage of ...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Atlas of Ice and Fire: Malazan Maps of the Fallen Redux 01 - The World

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Malazan Maps of the Fallen, Redux 01: The World
If you are not familiar with the Malazan world of novels and short stories – which are now planned to fill around thirty books in total – then please check out my Malazan Fran…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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A Revised Malazan Reading Order

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A Revised Malazan Reading Order
Way back in the day , I created a Malazan  reading order that became quite popular. This was in response to a terrible list published on Tor...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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NEWS: Paramount shelves the STAR TREK "Kelvinverse" permanently

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Paramount shelves the STAR TREK "Kelvinverse" permanently
Paramount have decided to shelve the Star Trek  "Kelvinverse" setting created by J.J. Abrams, apparently for good. This setting was the hom...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Atlas of Ice & Fire: Malazan Maps of the Fallen Redux

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Malazan Maps of the Fallen, Redux
Almost a decade ago, I set out to map the world of Ian Esslemont and Steven Erikson’s Malazan novels. That project was completed, initially satisfactorily, given the limitations of my mapping…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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NEWS: MASS EFFECT TV series to be an original story set after the original video game trilogy

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MASS EFFECT TV series to be an original story set after the original video game trilogy
BioWare have confirmed that Amazon's upcoming Mass Effect  TV series will be an original story , set after the original video game trilogy. ...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 23: The Trial of a Time Lord

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Doctor Who: Season 23 - The Trial of a Time Lord
The Doctor has been summoned by the Time Lords to a remote space station, there to stand trial again for interfering in the affairs of other...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Book Review: No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson

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No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson
Yet again, rebellion is stirring on the subcontinent of Seven Cities. More than a decade ago, the native tribes launched a vast rebellion, t...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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NEWS: China Miéville announces new, massive novel, THE ROUSE, for September 2026

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China Miéville announces new novel, THE ROUSE, for 2026
China Miéville and Picador have announced a new novel. The book will be Miéville's first full-length, solo novel since 2012's Railsea . Mié...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 22

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Doctor Who: Season 22
The Doctor continues his adventures in time and space in his new sixth incarnation, along with his American companion Peri. The Doctor's lat...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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NEWS: DOCTOR WHO to return with new Christmas special in 2026, partnership with Disney ends

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DOCTOR WHO to return with new special in 2026, ends partnership with Disney
The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who  will return in 2026 with a Christmas special to be written by Russell T. Davies, with a further seri...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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New interview with JV Jones at Grimdark Magazine.
INTERVIEW: with author J.V. Jones
J.V. Jones is a legend of dark fantasy and grimdark fiction. She released the epic fantasy Book of Words trilogy in the 1990s with Robert Jordan remarking ‘Wonderful… J.V. Jones is a striking writer’.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Video Game Review: The Forest

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The Forest
Eric LeBlanc, a survival expert, is travelling with his son Timmy when their aircraft crash lands in a remote, coastal region of Canada. The...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Book Review: Thud! by Terry Pratchett

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Thud! by Terry Pratchett
The anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley is looming. Everyone knows this was the great battle where the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. Or t...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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A World Map of Carnival Row

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A World Map of Carnival Row
After a break, we’re back with a new map, this time a “quickie” (note: not that quick) map for the Amazon TV series Carnival Row, which aired for two seasons in 2019 and 2023 and …
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October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 21

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Doctor Who: Season 21
The Doctor's adventures continue, but are getting bloodier and darker, to the consternation of companions old and new. As the Fifth Doctor's...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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TV Review: Alien Earth - Season 1

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Alien: Earth - Season 1
2120. Five powerful corporations control the Solar system, including Prodigy. After a decades-long mission to collect alien specimens from v...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Not quite NEWS but also more than a RUMOUR: One missing DOCTOR WHO episode located

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RUMOUR: One missing DOCTOR WHO episode has been located
The saga of Doctor Who 's missing episodes has seen unexpected developments this week, with the Film is Fabulous charity confirming it is p...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM