ReviewMagazines
Alter Ego #123 March 2014 (magazine review).
Seeing all the cover of ‘Alter Ego’, there are a couple that really stand out, not surprisingly as its drawn by Neal Adams,…
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ReviewScifi
Cixin Liu’s The Village Teacher: Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Zhang Xiaoyu (graphic novel review).
The cover image for this graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu’s story ‘The Village Teacher’ seems very incongruous. The title brings to mind…
ReviewHorror
The Monster In The Mirror: Looking For HP Lovecraft by Robert H Waugh (book review).
As one of the foremost exponents of Lovecraft scholarship, Robert Waugh sagely kicks off this impressive study by asking that most crucial of…
ReviewScifi
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2021, Volume 141 #756 (magazine review).
Often, it is the stories by established writers that draw a new reader to a magazine. In this case it is Michael Swanwick…
ReviewBooks
Secrets In The Shadows: The Art & Life Of Gene Colan by Tom Field and Gene Colan (book review).
Gene Colan cut corners on his artwork. Every explosion was a full page. He’d use the side of his pencil to draw some…
ReviewBooks
The Art Of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge by Amy Ratcliffe (book review).
I haven’t yet been lucky enough to visit Galaxy’s Edge, a slice of the ‘Star Wars’ universe carved out of Disney’s two major…
ReviewIllustration
Illustrators #34 (magazine review).
This latest issue of ‘Illustrators’ focuses on the Latin artists who gained fame with work outside of their own country. Top of this…
ReviewScifi
Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger (book review).
When an accident triggers an evacuation of the International Space Station, one of the astronauts decides to stay behind. Ignoring protocol and direct…
ReviewScifi
Dreaming In Quantum And Other Stories by Lynda Clark (book review).
‘Dreaming In Quantum And Other Stories’ is a short book of short and slightly odd stories. There are 15 stories in all ranging…
ReviewScifi
Cixin Liu’s The Wandering Earth by: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Stefano Raffaele (graphic novel review).
As part of the new series of graphic novels adaptations of Cixin Liu’s work, one of his best-known short stories, ‘The Wandering Earth’,…
ReviewScifi
Cixin Liu’s Sea of Dreams: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Jok (graphic novel review).
Several of Cixin Liu’s novels and two short story collections have been translated into English and I’ve read all of them, as well…
ReviewScifi
This Is Our Undoing by Lorraine Wilson (book review).
It’s seldom that I’m stumped when coming to write a book review, but all I can think to say about Lorraine Wilson’s novel…