Highway To Mars

Gareth and Daniel from the Out of Range Podcast explore the cinematic and TV versions of Back to the Future.  Check them out on Saturdays and Sundays.

Odile, Jim and Stefan talk Hunger games the best of the YA dystopian future series to hit our bookshelves in the 2000s.

Gareth and Daniel from the Out of Range Podcast explore the cinematic and TV versions of Back to the Future.  Check them out on Saturdays and Sundays.

Gareth and Daniel from the Out of Range Podcast explore the cinematic and TV versions of Back to the Future.  Check them out on Saturdays and Sundays.

Rabbit joins me for the first time in a couple of years to talk Warehouse 13 – Season 3-5.  We both really enjoyed the final three seasons and even though we mainly cover the core storyline as that is long enough Rabbit makes sure we talk some of the really fun elements of the show.

I cover the first of the Bioshock Series which is an interesting deviation into storytelling via games.  The richness of the world is compelling, the story has twists and turns and is gripping but from a pure storytelling point of view the conflict between the needs of game mechanics and storytelling do clash.  Amazing game […]

Every now and again there is a series that comes along and breaks my expectations.  This is very much such a series.  I went in expecting to be bored and hating it and walked away tearing out my hair that the show ended within 5 seasons.  To kick it off we talk series 1 & […]

Were Back! The Book Podcast has been on Hiatus for a year now, so with the new years episode you get two podcasts for the price of one. This is a Thomgoria/Highway to Mars special crossover for a book that was only released in June, making it the newest book we have ever reviewed.

Well we end the year the way we intended to start it. The apocalype joins me to talk the best Doctor Who episode of the year. Moffat definitely save the best for last by us martians. Hope everyone has had an excellent christmas.

So Doctor Who is gone for another year. The Apocalypse has decided to break up with the good doctor while I enjoyed it. So rather than adding much more to the volumes already spoken about Doctor Who we look at the generations and their perspective.

So I finally managed to find time to go to *a* movie with the Apocalypse.  As it turns out most of the movies we have made it to in the past 12 months are Dystopian Future, so we thought we would talk Dystopian future and why it resonates so much with modern teens.

The doctor has twice been put on trial for crimes by his people, been convicted of interfering (to do good) and forced to regenerate, has faced countless moral quandaries and saved the universe more times than I have had baked beans on toast, which admittedly isn’t that often.  So why after all that is there […]

Okay so the right way to play a game series is to start at the end, bumble through clueless then go back to the beginning and spend the next whatever going oooooooohhhh…. Riiiiggghhhttt.  This was the exercise I undertook at the beginning of the year that started the beginnings and endings theme.    Even though […]

As we kick back into Highway to Mars we are going to be covering a lot of beginnings and endings and how things change. One that is likely to cause a lot of discussion in the coming months is the transition between Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. The apocalypse joins me to talk about this […]

So Martian Central has been busy fishing and Sci-fi work has been hard to come by. However just after breakfast the Apocalyse and I took out time to challenge each other to a science fiction quiz and of course I totally pned her teenage ass. Really… Truthfully… I will just nip off now to die […]

Stranger in a Strange Land is one of those must reads in science fiction. In part it is an examination of us as humans, in part it is a mirror to us and in part it’s Heinleins examination of things in politics, religion and society that were clearly on his mind. Telling a Jungle Book […]

Metal men facing off against one another? What better challenge to throw at the apocalypse. Nobody likes the new robocop, let’s just get that out of the way but I thought this might be a bit of fun to compare the two at the risk of the internet melting down at my profanity. So like […]

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! They cried. How can you do this? Now I have been among those that have said no to a remake on the grounds of love for the original. It’s a habit I am trying to kick and for the past year in general I have managed to stay clean. I did have an early […]

Almost Human is a futuristic cop show good on the entertainment but doesn’t add much to our understanding of it’s subject matter – robots. Robots in the Almost Human world come in two forms, the ken doll and the human lite. The ken dolls are dumb and disposable, the human lites like data, just want […]

Every now and again there is comes along a movie that disappoints, not on content but because it shows off everything that science fiction can do and then gets put into the bucket called niche market. This is what happened to Her, in my neck of the woods at least. Where Gravity with all its […]