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…
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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…
ReviewBooks
The Aylesford Skull (A Langdon St. Ives novel) by James P. Blaylock (book review).
Langdon St. Ives has moved with his family to the tranquil village of Aylesford hoping to leave his past and enemies behind him.…
ReviewFantasy
Dragon In Chains (The Moshui Trilogy book one) by Daniel Fox (book review).
The young emperor, Chien Hua, has been forced to flee his home after power-hungry generals seized control. He finds himself in exile on…
ReviewHorror
A Matter Of Blood (The Dog-Faced Gods book 1 of 3) by Sarah Pinborough (book review).
Cass realises that nothing was as it seemed. His family had all been keeping secrets and now it is vital that Cass uncovers…
ReviewBooks
Gravity by Brian Clegg (book review).
Gravity. Can’t see it. Can’t live without it. It keeps us on the Earth and if you fall from a great height,…
ReviewScifi
Salvage And Demolition by Tim Powers (book review).
‘Salvage And Demolition’, the latest novella from Tim Powers, is a classic. I don’t necessarily mean it’s an enduring work of genius (though…
ReviewFantasy
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘A plain spoken, appealing narrator relates the history of her parents – a Nevada silver baron who forced the…
ReviewMusic/Audio
Tron Uprising by Joseph Trapanese (soundtrack review)
Cartoons have come a long way since I was a lad. Gone are the paper-thin plots, average animation and soundtracks that could have…