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Issue #256 – One Must Kill Another
(Full discretion, I acted as editor on this book) Good horror doesn’t…
Issue #255 – The Disaster Artist
“Oh, hi Mark…” Sometimes something becomes so famous (or infamous) that people…
Issue #254 – Artemis
Recently, I compared Earnest Cline’s Ready Player One to his follow-up novel…
Issue #253 – The Jane Austen Project
Travelling back in time is a tricky little thing. The fact it…
Issue #252 – A Wizard of Earthsea
I may have mentioned this in an earlier review: Every once in…
Issue #251 – Ready Player One
Last month I reviewed Armada, by Earnest Cline. Though I liked it,…
Issue #250 – Armada
Meta, in case you’re not familiar with the term, refers to being…
Issue #249 – The Moonshine War
“People around here have built their stills and drunk whiskey for more…
Issue #248 – Valérian
I grew up with comics, but they were American comics. Back then,…
Issue #247 – Jane Austen Graphic Novels
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a novel in possession of…
Issue #246 – William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
It is a period of civil war. The spaceships of the rebels,…
Issue #245 – The Road to Mars
“I laughed, I cried, and then I read the book.” – Steve…
Issue #244 – Norse Mythology
While I am somewhat familiar with the Norse pantheon, I must admit…
Issue #243 – Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum is a book that changed my life. I partly have…
Issue #242 – King Solomon’s Mines
The original “White Man Goes To Africa” adventure, H. Rider Haggard wrote…
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
So I’ve seen Valerian. While I enjoyed myself, loved the visuals and…
Issue #241 – As You Wish
It’s one of the most quotable movies in history, and the…
Issue #240 – Red Dwarf
It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere, I’m all alone,…
Issue #239 – Edgeworks Collection
This is a series you’ll only find from used sources, but if…
Issue #238 – The Force Awakens
This started off as a very different review. Usually when I read…
Issue #237 – Cinder
While some people groan and rant any time a beloved franchise…
#235 – The League of Rogues Series
I wanted to return to the world of adult novels, which I…
Issue #234 – The Lost Worlds of 2001
This is something new for me: recommending a book you’ll probably never…
Issue # 233 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Trying to write from a different perspective is never an easy thing.…
Issue #232 – The Long Earth Series
Imagine a world where the Earth’s evolution ended up just slightly different…
Stuff I’ve Played: Ark – Survival Evolved
Anyone who knows me knows that the game I talk most about…
Issue #231 – The Martian
We may be in a new golden age of science fiction. While…
Stuff I’ve Seen: The Little Prince
This is one of those movies you want to recommend despite its…
Stuff I’ve Seen: Beauty and the Beast
I’ve wanted to talk about this for a while now, ever since…
Star Wars: Rogue One. I liked it, but…
Okay, this is going to have spoilers. Some might say that you…
No Man’s Sky – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
I love space sims. The more immersive, the better. Ideally, I want…
Ghostbusters (2016)
Anyone who knows me knows I looked at the prospect of a…
Issue #230 – Elite: Reclamation
Elite was the first open-ended “space sim” video game, released back in…
Issue #229 – Mass Effect
Adapting and expanding from movies or TV shows is one thing. Video…
Issue #228 – Star Trek: The Great Starship Race
For the next few installments I’m going to look at adaptations…
Issue #226 – Fat Riker
Most of the books I write about are big hitters, either classics,…
Issue #225 – Inferno
I used to have it in for Dan Brown. Seriously, I didn’t…
Issue #224 – Around the World in Eighty Days
For me, this is where it all began. Before I ever tried…
Issue #223 – Soon I Will Be Invincible
Crossing mediums is tricky business. People always say, “the book was better…
Issue #222—Serenity – Leaves on the Wind
Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand…
Issue #221- The Stainless Steel Rat
When a friend of mine told me about Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel…
Issue #220 – In Memory of Sir Terry Pratchett
The recent passing of Sir Terry was far from unexpected, but sudden…
Issue #219 – Timeline
When it comes to writing fiction, how much research do you really…
Issue #218 – The Martian Chronicles
‘Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired…
Issue #217 – On Basilisk Station
When SF fans talk about starship captains, the question of Captain Janeway…
Issue #216 – The Ship Who Sang
When I thought of science fiction as a kid, I tended…
Issue #215 – More Than Magic
Adult Literature in the Geek Age Last month I looked at Young…
Issue #214 – Harry Potter and the Mysterious Teen/Young Adult Novel
“A young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”…
Issue #213 – Three Sides of a Genre: The Zombie Story
Braaaaains… Funny how the most recognizable thing about zombies actually comes from…