ReviewFantasy
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman (book review).
Kinch’s career as a highwayman ends abruptly when a single foreign fighter defeats his whole band. He’s not all that disappointed. A fully…
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ReviewFantasy
Wolf Rain (A Psy-Changeling Trinity Novel #18) by Nalini Singh (book review).
There are readers who like the comfort of knowing, roughly, what will happen in a book. This is why the Mills & Boon…
ReviewScifi
How To Mars, by David Ebenbach (book review).
‘How To Mars’ is David Ebenbach’s first foray into Science Fiction. The basic premise is fun: six astronauts (‘Marsonauts’) are selected by popular…
ReviewMagazines
Comic Book Artist Vol. 2 #1 (magazine review).
I think I have to thank the luck lords when two first issues came up on the auction site and got both of…
ReviewSuperheroes
Jupiter’s Legacy (superhero TV series: review).
Here’s the review of Jupiter’s Legacy from our Paul, where he explains exactly what happened, where the Netflix superhero TV deviated from the…
ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Curse Of Fenric by Ian Briggs (DVD review).
‘The Curse Of Fenric’ is the penultimate story in the McCoy era starts with two military dinghies approaching shore when a fog falls…
ReviewComics
Fantastic Four: Anthesis Treasury Edition by Mark Waid and Neal Adams (graphic novel review).
When I recently discovered that Neal Adams had drawn the mini-series ‘Fantastic Four: Anthesis’, a little investigating also found it had been released…
ReviewScifi
Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill (book review).
In 2017’s ‘Sea Of Rust’, C. Robert Cargill told a tale of the far future where purpose-built robots struggle to survive once they…
ReviewBooks
Rembrandt: Masterpieces Of Art by Susan Grange (book review).
Looking at the other artists in Flame Tree’s artists books that might be akin to fantasy art, I considered Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon…
ReviewScifi
Fatal Depth (The Rise Of Oceania book 3) by Timothy S. Johnston (book review).
Truman McClusky is a man on a mission. Since the beginning of Timothy S. Johnston’s ‘The Rise Of Oceania’ series, Mac has twice…
ReviewScifi
Titan by Francois Vigneault (graphic novel review).
‘Titan’ is a graphic novel that’s written and crudely drawn by Francois Vigneault. Crudely but with gusto, good storytelling and a sort of…
ReviewBooks
Filmed In Supermarionation by Stephen La Rivière (book review).
This is a second printing and updated version of ‘Filmed In Supermarionation’ by Stephen La Rivière, originally printed in 2009 in 2014 and…