No book is ever read in an experiential vacuum. Any reader brings to a novel their world view, their pain and their sorrow, their hopes and their joys and all of them go into how they react to any story, often dialling it up or shaping into ways more intense Continue Reading
The books they are a-coming! Angry Robot Books announces three exciting new releases
I am huge reader of sci-fi and fantasy books, and as such, I love it when authors, and just as importantly publishing houses, decide to go all out to do something a little, or a lot, different with the genre. It’s why I love Angry Robot Books who, quite apart Continue Reading
Book review: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The world, nay the galaxy is a big, messily wonderful and diverse place and it’s a joy to see it reflected in the pages of Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, a vigorously alive novel that takes a brilliantly out-there premise and runs with it in ways that will Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Head Lopper & The Island and the Plague of Beasts by Andrew Maclean with Mike Spicer
Being late to the party is not always a bad thing. Especially in the near-eternal world of pop culture where, true, the latest and greatest thing does burn brightly and brightly in the ephemeral digital zeitgeist, creating the impression that once it’s gone, that’s it in terms of anyone else Continue Reading
Book review: Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
If you’re a reader of any devotion, you will doubtless have an enduring and profound love with your local bookshop or, quite possibly, a great many bookshops. Part and parcel of that great and enduring romance with the retailer to end all retailers – that last phrase alone should establish Continue Reading
Trio of tantalising TV trailers: Severance, LOTR: The Rings of Power and The Cuphead Show!
Granted using the word “TV” is a tad redundant in this age of cord-cutting, antenna-banishing streaming but there’s still a great deal of affection for an object many people still use and which harkens back to a time when sitting down to watch visual entertainment didn’t amount to a massive Continue Reading
Book review: The Bird’s Child by Sandra Leigh Price
Finding, and keeping, a place to belong is one of the great imperatives of the human soul. We all need somewhere that feels our own, with people who will love us unconditionally and give us the room and the encouragement to be precisely the people we need to be. Discovering Continue Reading
Together at the end of the world: Cover + synopsis for Wayward by Chuck Wendig
SNAPSHOTFive years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. Their secret destination: Continue Reading
Movie review: Dune – Part One
Some stories are so big and complex that they almost defy being told. “Almost” being the operative word here; of course Frank Herbert found a way with Dune, his 1965 novel which has deservedly earned iconic status as a breathtakingly vital piece of science fiction. It is the film of Continue Reading
Embrace to chaos: The burred lines between reality and dreams in Moon Knight
SNAPSHOTThe series follows Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life. Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a Continue Reading