Category: GENRE
Zombillenium Volume 4: Royal Witchcraft by Arthur de Pins (graphic novel review).
I’ve read quite a few graphic novels featuring zombies over recent years, so my question for any new one is always going to be what’s fresh or different about it. Thankfully, in the case of the latest volume in Arthur de Pins’ ‘Zombillenium’ series, the answer’s clear. It’s set in and around a theme park […]
Abaddon’s Gate (book 3 of The Expanse Series) by James S.A. Corey (book review).
Note for those who have only watched ‘The Expanse’, there are significant sub-plot changes between the TV series and the novel. The alien protomolecule has risen from Venus like ‘some titanic sea creature’ and travelled to the outer planets’ zone to form a Ring a thousand kilometres wide. A flotilla of science and military ships […]
Homeland: spy-fy TV series final season 8 (trailer).
The last, last, final, ever (we promise), series of dark spy-fy TV series Homeland is here with us soon – landing in the USA February 9th 2020 on the Showtime network. Oh, Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin, how will we live without you? And will you live, or both get whacked in some sort of […]
The Moon Industrial Complex (science video).
The Moon is getting lined up to be commercialised damned quick – before you know it, there’ll be McDonalds and Space Ports and mines and the life of the high frontier will get real busy, real quick.
Spaced (at 21): geekiest sitcom ever? (video: cast panel).
Spaced was perhaps the geekiest comedy sitcom, like, ever! It could take on the Big Bang Theory and leave our American cousins wheezing on the floor, begging for less scifi and comic-book in-jokes! In this video panel, Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, its director, Edgar Wright and cast and crew including Mark Heap and Reece […]
Birding Without Borders by Noah Strycker (book review).
Here’s a book about a hobby taken to an extreme. Casual birdwatching is common enough, and some people take it a bit seriously, planning daytrips or summer holidays to places with particularly interesting variety of birdlife. But Noah Strycker aimed even higher, taking himself around the world with the aim to ‘spot’ at least half […]
Christopher Tolkien dies of old age at 95 (news).
Christopher Tolkien, literary executor of the Tolkien Estate (and son of JRR), has passed away in France of old age aged 95. The chair of the Tolkien Society, Shaun Gunner, commented, “All of us in the Tolkien Society will share in the sadness at the news of Christopher Tolkien’s death, and we send our condolences […]
Voyeurs Of Death by Shaun Jeffrey (book review).
‘Voyeurs Of Death’ is a single author collection by Shaun Jeffrey from 2007 featuring very short stories, most of which have appeared previously in some other horror magazine or anthologies. This means that some editor paid good money for them and was confident they would please the punters which is the best recommendation you can […]
Scythe (Arc Of A Scythe book one) by Neil Shusterman (book review).
Imagine, if you will, a world where death no longer exists in its natural form. You can no longer just get old or sick or get into an accident or commit suicide to die. In this world, in order to die you must be gleaned by a professional Scythe. These are a necessary evil in […]
Empire Of Storms (Throne Of Glass book 5) by Sarah J Maas (book review).
‘Empire Of Storms’ is book five in the ‘Throne Of Glass’ series by Sarah J Maas. As this is book five, there will be spoilers for the first four books in the synopsis and also the review. You have been warned! Aelin has fought hard to get to this point and she must fight harder […]
