Author: Michael Flett

On October 7th 1849, the American writer Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore. He was taken to hospital, where he later died, aged

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From his first published science fiction story just over two decades ago, Alastair Reynolds has marked a vast territory across the Milky Way and beyond as one of

It’s hard to believe only nine years have passed since Underworld first unleashed a leatherbound Kate Beckinsale as the Death Dealer Selene, fearlessly protecting her vampire clan against

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Timur Bekmambetov, the Kazakhstani director behind the epic Russian supernatural thriller films Nochnoy Dozor and Dnevnoy Dozor, Night Watch and Day Watch respectively, is a powerful force in