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…
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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’…
ReviewBooks
Destination Mars: New Explorations Of The Red Planet by Rod Pyle (book review).
With so much focus on the Apollo missions to the Moon and later with the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, sending…
ReviewFantasy
Days Of Blood And Starlight (Daughter Of Smoke And Bone Trilogy book 2) by Laini Taylor (book review).
‘Days Of Blood and Starlight’ is book two of the ‘Daughter Of Smoke And Bone Trilogy’. Laini Taylor has also written a series…
ReviewBooks
The Best Of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord (book review).
There are tell-tell signs when you start realising a book’s content isn’t going to be as it says on the back cover. As…
ReviewBooks
The Spy Who Haunted Me (Secret Histories: 3) by Simon R. Green (book review)
The third in a series doesn’t always have a good reputation. ‘The Godfather Part Three’ ruined the legacy of the first two, ‘Spider-Man…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Dominators by Norman Ashby (DVD review).
I remember when the sixth season of ‘Doctor Who’ was about to be shown on TV back in 1968 that there was a…