Author Archive: UncleGeoff
Geoff Willmetts has been editor at SFCrowsnest for some 15 plus years now, showing a versatility and knowledge in not only Science Fiction, but also the sciences and arts, all of which has been displayed here through editorials, reviews, articles and stories. With the latter, he has been running a short story series under the title of ‘Psi-Kicks’
If you want to contribute to SFCrowsnest, read the guidelines and show him what you can do. If it isn’t usable, he spends as much time telling you what the problems is as he would with material he accepts. This is largely how he got called an Uncle, as in Dutch Uncle. He’s not actually Dutch but hails from the west country in the UK.
Doctor Who: 2013 Season: The Name Of The Doctor by Steven Moffat (episode review).
As with the SFCrowsnest Forum in recent years and this time there and here on the SFCrowsnest.org.uk, my comments on the latest season of ‘Doctor Who’. These will mostly be impressions – here’s my Doctor one, still ‘Geronimo!’ – rather than intentional plot spoilers. If you’re living in a country that hasn’t seen these episodes [...]
Gwynne’s Grammar by N.M. Gwynne (book review).
Spotting author N.M. Gwynne on BBC1’s ‘Breakfast Show’ in early May promoting his book ‘Gwynne’s Grammar’, I quickly but in a request to the nice lady publicist at Ebury Press and was reading it within a couple days. Unlike the other grammar book I read a couple months back, this one is more like a [...]
Doctor Who In Time And Space edited by Gillian I. Leitch (book review).
I’m not too sure about the choice of cover for this book, ‘Doctor Who In Time And Space’, using Christopher Eccleston than one of the other Doctor regenerations which would have better selling power, but then this is an American book. Well, in name only. There are sixteen chapters and some of them are written [...]
Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych novels book 3) by Ian Tregillis (book review).
Just when you thought ‘The Milkweed Novels’ couldn’t possibly go any further, a third one comes along. The older Raybould Marsh has been given an assisted time travel back to 1940 determined to change the past both stopping the Nazi school and getting the warlocks involved which will the end of the world. This is [...]
Crazy Mary Volume 1 by Michael Colbert and JK Woodward (graphic novel review).
Crazy Mary of the title is a lady who has been given enhanced senses. Unfortunately, she also appears to see things that aren’t there or at least not to other people, hence her moniker. Although some insight into how Mary acquired her abilities isn’t given until the last story, you don’t really need to know [...]
Doctor Who – 2013 Season: Nightmare In Silver by Neil Gaiman (episode review).
Doctor Who: 2013 Season observations by: GF Willmetts As with the SFCrowsnest Forum in recent years and this time there and here on the SFCrowsnest.org.uk, my comments on the latest season of ‘Doctor Who’. These will mostly be impressions – here’s my Doctor one, still ‘Geronimo!’ – rather than intentional plot spoilers. If you’re living [...]
Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013) a tribute by: GF Willmetts
At the magnificent age of 92, stop-animation maestro Ray Harryhausen passed away on 07 May 2013. With so many film animation created by CGI blending to live-action these days, he is probably the last link to this traditional technique. Even he thought he could never compete with it and retired effectively after completing ‘Clash Of [...]
Doctor Who – 2013 Season: The Crimson Horror by Mark Gatiss.
Doctor Who: 2013 Season observations by: GF Willmetts As with the SFCrowsnest Forum in recent years and this time there and here on the SFCrowsnest.org.uk, my comments on the latest season of ‘Doctor Who’. These will mostly be impressions – here’s my Doctor one, still ‘Geronimo!’ – rather than intentional plot spoilers. If you’re living [...]
Doctor Who – 2013 Season: Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS by Steve Thompson (episode review).
As with the SFCrowsnest Forum in recent years and this time there and here on the SFCrowsnest.org.uk, my comments on the latest season of ‘Doctor Who’. These will mostly be impressions – here’s my Doctor one, still ‘Geronimo!’ – rather than intentional plot spoilers. If you’re living in a country that hasn’t seen these episodes [...]
Editorial – May 2013 (editorial).
It’s all in the detail. Hello everyone Something we all get accused of is nit-picking on details in stories, whether on film, television or in books. As genre fans, we’re notorious for it. I think compared to the ‘average’ viewer or reader, it’s more a case of we’re paying attention and thinking rather than glibly [...]
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