ReviewFantasy
Lost Souls (Reviver trilogy book 2) by Seth Patrick (book review).
In the last 12 months, the Afterlifers have discovered new funding and started making life difficult for revivers like Jonah to do their…
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ReviewHumour
Illustrators #18 (magazine review).
My usual page flick of the latest issue of ‘Illustrators’ quickly revealed that it this isn’t a normal edition. If anything, it’s darn…
ReviewIllustration
Back Issue #96 June 2017 (magazine review).
This issue of ‘Back Issue’ is devoted to the sixty issues of ‘Marvel Fanfare’. In his interview, Al ‘Editori-Al’ Milgrom explains how it…
ReviewBooks
NASA Mercury: 1956 to 1963 by David Baker (book review).
In many respects, I have always wondered why Haynes left a look at NASA’s Mercury Program until last of their space books. At…
ReviewScifi
View From Another Shore: European Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) – 2nd edition edited by Franz Rottensteiner (book review)
Anthologies of foreign Science Fiction are intrinsically interesting, I think because the writers come from a different culture than your own. Not all…
ReviewComics
Draw! # 33 Spring 2017 (magazine review)
It shouldn’t come as a surprise from ‘Draw!’s cover that the first 40 pages are devoted to an interview with Bill Sienkiewicz and…
ReviewFantasy
The Bear And The Nightingale by Katherine Arden (book review)
‘The Bear And The Nightingale’ is a standalone novel set in Russia in the 1800s. Vasilisa is the youngest daughter of five children,…
ReviewBooks
Roger Hargreaves Doctor Who Series: Dr. First, Dr. Fourth, Dr. Eleventh and Dr. Twelfth – all by Adam Hargreaves (books review)
Lest we forget, ‘Doctor Who’ is intended to be a show for children. I have two of them myself and. like any good…
ReviewBooks
The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent (book review)
Jeremy Lent’s book title, ‘The Patterning Instinct’, sounds like a book on knitting but makes more sense from its sub-title, ‘A Cultural History…
ReviewScifi
The Collapsing Empire (book 1) by John Scalzi (book review).
‘The Collapsing Empire’ is the first book in a new series by award-winning author John Scalzi and the first of his books that…
ReviewComics
Alter Ego # 146 May 2017 (magazine review).
The cream at the top of the latest ‘Alter Ego’ magazine has to be the interview with the extremely prolific comicbook writer, Doug…
ReviewHorror
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016) (Blu-ray horror film review).
Odd thing. The blu-ray version of ‘Underworld: Blood Wars’ is 91 minutes long and the DVD version is 80 or 88 minutes depending…