All posts tagged "science fiction"
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Torchwood: God Among Us Part 1, by Big Finish
Torchwood picks up the pieces with a new team and moves on. After all, there’s a whole new set of alien threats to deal with...
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974Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Blind Terror: The Gods Of Frost, by Big Finish
Kathryn Ellis arrives to take up a post as a housekeeper at Hodder Hall where she meets the aloof Isaac Hodder, who seems more interested in his experiments and his rather peculiar sister, Clarissa.
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887Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who Short Trips: I Am The Master, by Big Finish
The Doctor's arch nemesis and fellow Time Lord, The Master, recalls how he destroyed a perfectly well-balanced planetary system and in particular, the main planet, Glox.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Shilling & Sixpence Investigates, by Big Finish
Based on Nigel Fairs’s murder mystery serial that has been running for over 21 years throughout the UK, Shilling & Sixpence Investigate takes place in a sometimes quirky, sometimes dark world where nobody is quite whom they seem.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures Vol 2, by Big Finish
The first Doctor, with his original companions, come across a planet where the child-like inhabitants do not die, then visit ancient Japan where they find themselves in the middle of a plot to murder the Shogun and wrestle power from him.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Lady Christina: Series One, by Big Finish
Michelle Ryan reprises her Dr Who television role as Lady Christina, who comes from a rich background and she spends her time being one of the most successful cat burglars on the planet.
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963Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Star Trek: Prometheus 2: The Root of All Rage, by Big Finish
In the second instalment of the this ongoing story, the crew of the Federation ship, Prometheus, try to prevent a galactic war from breaking out when a mysterious radiation cloud starts causing races to turn against each other.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, by various authors
Forty short stories retelling the original Star Wars film from the view point of other characters, from Stormtroopers and Sandpeople, to Aunt Beru and Obi-Wan at the moment of their deaths. Released for the 40th anniversary of the film.
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2.6KArtsTheatre Review: The Man from Earth
Director Robert Kimber has said the theme of the play can be encapsulated in the idea of ‘moving on’ but at the same time we can never know where the next journey may take us. Time is of the essence in the play as is the existential question of time being seen subjectively by each of us.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, by Big Finish
Four narrated stories set across the Eleventh Doctor's era and featuring Amy Pond, Clara Oswald and previous characters that shared those same adventures.
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802Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Torchwood: Deadbeat Escape, by Big Finish
On a bleak night in Wales, Hywel Roberts finds himself in need of a hotel. He is greeted by a courteous and elderly gentleman but soon realises that this hotel - nicknamed the Deadbeat Escape - is no ordinary hotel and that he has been expected.
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725Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who #240: Hour of The Cybermen, by Big Finish
The Doctor arrives to find scavengers, a deserted London and UNIT requesting his presence in the drought-ridden city. It is all part of a plot by the Cybermen to hold the world for ransom and the Doctor and UNIT have very little time to save the planet.
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910Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Jeremiah Bourne in Time, by Big Finish
Jeremiah Bourne is a young man who discovers he has an extraordinary gift for time travel. He doesn't need a machine. It just happens to him. He finds himself moving between present day London to 1910 and, along the way, helps a number of people in need.
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718Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Torchwood: Instant Karma, by Big Finish
Torchwood agent Toshiko Sato must stop a man with the ability to kill people with his thoughts. Trouble is, how to get to him and make him see reason without him silencing her…
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Star Trek Prometheus: Fight Fire with Fire, by Big Finish
A string of terrorist attacks against both the Federation and the Klingon Empire sees the crew of the USS Prometheus, led by Captain Richard Adams, dispatched to find the culprit.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles: The Second Doctor Vol 2, by Big Finish
Four new Doctor Who adventures set around the Second Doctor era and told from the companion's viewpoint, featuring several of the original TV actors reprising their roles including those of Jamie, Polly and Zoe.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Chronicles, by Big Finish
Four original, stand-alone audio adventures about the Tenth Doctor and his companions, with each story covering a different part of the Tenth Doctor’s timeline from his earliest adventures with Rose Tyler, through to companions Martha Jones and Donna Noble.
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912Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Torchwood: The Last Beacon, by Big Finish
In a remote Welsh village, Torchwood operatives Ianto Jones and Owen Harper are tracking what appears to be an alien signal. What should be routine becomes anything but as their attempts to stay incognito get foiled.
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771Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Star Cops: Mother Earth Part 1, by Big Finish
The original 1980s TV cast return for a new,full-cast revival of this futuristic space cop adventure series, featuring four original audio stories.
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707Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Torchwood: Goodbye Piccadilly, by Big Finish
PC Andy Davidson has woken up in 1950s Soho. He is naked, chained to bed and chained to Norton Foldgate who needs his help in proving that he is not a double agent. He also needs to get rid of an alien artefact before it falls into the wrong hands.
