ReviewFantasy
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (book review).
Le Cirque des Rêves (Circus Of Dreams) is a circus like no other, appearing overnight with no announcements and leaving again one day…
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ReviewFantasy
Hands Of Isis by Jo Graham (book review).
Charmian and Iras are half-sisters and handmaidens to Cleopatra, one of the most powerful women in the ancient world. Through Charmian’s eyes, we…
ReviewBooks
Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who edited by Deborah Stanish & L M Myles, Lance Parkin & Lars Pearson (book review)
Look at the website at www.madnorwegian.com and you’ll get details of this book, Chicks ‘Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor…
ReviewBooks
Creating The Filmation Generation by Lou Scheimer with Andy Mangels (book review).
Reviews can often tend to turn into confessionals. As reviewers, we get offered a lot of books to read and I have to…
ReviewHorror
Grabbers (2012) (DVD review).
Erin Island is the mythical and poetical name for Ireland itself but in this case, it’s a small island off Ireland’s West Coast,…
ReviewScifi
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod (book review).
In the early history of SF, authors used the medium with various intentions. Many books could be regarded as wish fulfilment but SF…
ReviewComics
The Essential Punisher Volume 1 (graphic novel review).
The Punisher first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man # 129 (Feb 1974) and was created by Gerry Conway and John Romita, Sr., who…
ReviewHorror
From The Tomb edited by Peter Normanton (book review).
‘From The Tomb’ was a British fanzine from about the 1950s comics created by Peter Normanton, a long time fan of the genre.…
ReviewBooks
The Science Of Consequences by Susan M. Schneider (book review).
Consequences is something to consider from the start with this book as a third is devoted to notes and extensive bibliography which you…
ReviewScifi
The Mandel Files Volume 2: The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton (book review).
This book is a re-issue of ‘The Nano Flower’, the final volume in Peter F. Hamilton’s first published trilogy of Science Fiction…
ReviewScifi
Downside Girls by Jaine Fenn (book review).
Once a writer is successful, editors of anthologies have a tendency to ask them for stories even though they may be too engrossed…
ReviewFantasy
Lost Truth (The Truth series book 4) by Dawn Cook (book review).
‘Lost Truth’ is in fact the fourth and currently final book of the fantasy ‘Truth’ series by Dawn Cook. ‘First Truth’, ‘Hidden Truth’…