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  WHAT I THINK IT’S ABOUT In the first two decades of the 21st century, genetic research surged ahead, unlocking the genomes of countless living creatures including man himself, and of course, the sparrow. Drunk with the power of limitless knowledge, and their newly-acquired ability to play “God”, scientists began Continue Reading

  Mankind is a contrarily unique species. Armed with ferocious intelligence, tenacity, ambition, and the ability to remold the world, for better or worse, we hold both the seeds of our uplifting and our downfall in our often overly confident hands. Peter may build up, but Paul will tear down, Continue Reading

  Ever wondered what tired zombie parents, spent from a long day wandering through empty apocalyptic landscapes scaring and eating the living,  read to their undead offspring come bedtime? (Dead or not, I am betting there’s a good chance that like children everywhere they would be a lively as hell, Continue Reading

  The Long War, the collaborative successor to Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s best-selling The Long Earth is a curiously unsatisfying book. As ambitious as you could want in scope – it details humanity’s simultaneously flawed and wonderstruck, and sometimes conflict-riddled, continued expansion into the endless succession of multiple earths, some Continue Reading

I adore the guys and gals at Buzzfeed. They dish up an endless supply of amazingly cool pop culture gems they have found on the good old “interweb”, enlivening many an ordinary day. Inspired by the #BooksWithaLetterMissing hashtag game on Twitter, one of their posts in the last week featured book Continue Reading

  Hark what tome through yonder rarefied window breaks? Why it’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, proof that there if the Bard of Avon had been alive in the 1970s that it would have been he and George Lucas bringing the adventures of Luke, Leia and Han, C3PIO and R2D2 to Continue Reading

  Pete and Myka are almost back in our lives people! We have just over 2 weeks till Pete (Eddie McClintock), Myka (Joanne Kelly), Claudia (Allison Scagliotti), Steve (Aaron Ashmore) and the unstoppable, not to mention, lightning fast Mrs. Fredric (CCH Pounder) return to our TV screens to do battle with Continue Reading

  “Oh Mickey, you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind!” Granted those song lyrics weren’t recorded and released by Toni Basil in 1982 with either this character or this particular representation of him in mind but I still think they are particularly apt. Uber-talented artist, Alessandro Conti, Continue Reading

  Last night, for exactly two hours and thirty-five minutes, I was a kid again. A whooping and hollering kid, delighted with life, and frankly not caring who knew it. No, this delightful reversion was not due to some bizarre act of DNA-reversing science, cooked up in some off-the-grid lab Continue Reading

  Yes that is the new collective noun for pop culture books, which you will not be surprised to learn I have in abundance to go with the DVDs, the downloads, the associated merchandise and a cyborg-partridge-in-a-pear tree (what you didn’t expect anything so everyday as a normal flesh-and-blood one Continue Reading