How you react to a given situation says a lot about who you are as a person. In Stina Leicht’s evocatively intense novel, Persephone Station, set in the future when humanity has colonised the stars to good and bad effect, depending on where you stand in society or if you’re Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
The journey begins: Thoughts on Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (S1, E1-2)
We live in a fast age. Want same day delivery? You got it! A plane that zips you from A to B in a hour or so? Of course! Food ordered and handed to you in mere minutes? Well, why the hell not? It’s all very convenient and who among Continue Reading
The greatest adventures are the ones that bring us home: Thoughts on Lost Ollie
Can you hear that? The sound you hear so thunderously and warmheartedly is the massive heart beating at the core of Lost Ollie, a limited four-part series based on the 2016 novel Ollie’s Odyssey by William Joyce, which rips your soul from your body over and over before putting it Continue Reading
Book review: Bookish People by Susan Coll
If you ask most people, especially inveterate readers for whom books hold an almost mystically romantic quality, working in a bookstore would have to be the best of all possible worlds. The people who work there talk highly about the merits and rewards of helping books and people make happily Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Comics review: Crowded (TP 3) by Sebela / Stein / Brandt / Farrell / Rae
Crowded TP 3 is a LOT. And that, it has to be said at the outset, is a very, very, VERY good thing. From the outlandishly bright and vivid colours of every panel to the characters who leap off the page so vivaciously and fulsomely realised are they to dialogues Continue Reading
Book review: Ledge (The Glacian Trilogy, book 1) by Stacey McEwen
There is something breathtakingly wondrous about being plunged into a whole new fantastical world, especially one as expansively and vividly realised as that in Stacey McEwan’s debut novel, Ledge, the first entry in The Glacian Trilogy. While the title might be taut and sparing in its use of letters, the Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The transformative power of the beautifully unexpected in Carrier
SNAPSHOTIt’s business as usual for a deep space pilot, until a strange anomaly hits her ship and knocks it off course. Once she opens the viewport, she starts hearing strange noises that show up as something large on the scanner … (courtesy YouTube) Even the most wondrously-inclined of us can Continue Reading
Book review: The Bellbird River Country Choir by Sophie Green
Despite all its lustrous, wondrously glittering possibility, life has a way sometimes, or much of the time if it has dealt you more than a few harsh blows, of feeling like it’s done as much as it’s going to do. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have given up on life; Continue Reading
Mini mass of marvellous movie trailers: Slumberland, Pinocchio, Waiting For Bojangles, The Lost King + Confess, Fletch
Whether you like heading to the movies to munch on popcorn in the dark or sitting at home snuggled up on the lounge watching your streaming service of choice, there are a lot of movies coming your way. The five selected here are a beguiling mix of the fantastical, the Continue Reading
Book review: The Brink by Holden Sheppard
It will hardly come as a newsflash to anyone that we live in a world with very fixed, and by “fixed” I mean concreted and superglued in place with all the concrete and super glue every produced, idea about everything. EVERYTHING. Of course, no one ever stands up and hands Continue Reading