ReviewMagazines
Apex Magazine Issue 54, November 2013 (magazine review).
I’m always prepared to accept that magazines will be a mixed bag of content as they have to cater for as large an…
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AndyWhitaker
I live in deepest darkest Essex where I enjoy photography, real ales, walking my dog, cooking and a really good book. I own an e-book reader which goes with me everywhere but still enjoy the traditional paper based varieties.
My oriental studies have earned me a black belt in Suduko and I'm considered a master in deadly Bonsai (there are very few survivors).
November 2013
ReviewScifi
The Binary Man by Jacob Prytherch and Kathryn Perkins (book review).
I didn’t get to read the original version of ‘The Binary Man’, so I had to make do with this re-edited 2013 version.…
October 2013
ReviewHorror
Plague Nation (an Ashley Parker novel: book 2) by Dana Fredsti (book review).
‘Plague Nation’, the second in the ‘Ashley Parker’ series picks up right where ‘Plague Town’ left off. Ashley and the other Wild Cards…
ReviewScifi
Apex by Aer-ki Jyr (book review).
I had never heard of Aer-ki Jyr before although he has written 36 episodes of his ‘Star Force’ series and a few other…
ReviewBooks
Baneblade (A Warhammer 40000 novel) by Guy Haley (book review).
The Warhammer 40000 universe is a grim unforgiving place where the only certainty is war and death. Humankind is beset on all sides…
ReviewScifi
The Lost Stars: Perilous Shield by Jack Campbell (book review).
‘The Lost Stars: Perilous Shield’ is book two in the spin- off from ‘The Lost Fleet’ series following on from ‘Tarnished Knight’, which…
ReviewScifi
The Hermetic Millennia by John C. Wright (book review).
‘The Hermetic Millennia’ is the sequel to ‘Counting To A Trillion’ and follows on from where it ended. Basically’ the hero Menelaus Illation…
February 2013
ReviewScifi
Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories Of Rudy Rucker by Rudy Rucker (book review)
‘The Mad Professor’ is a collection of 13 of Rudy Rucker’s short stories. Rucker himself is a double professor, starting with mathematics and…
January 2013
ReviewBooks
False Covenant: A Widdershins Adventure by Ari Marmell (book review).
‘False Covenant’ is the second in the ‘Widdershins Adventure’ fantasy series of novels by Ari Marmell. It picks up about six months after…
ReviewBooks
Conflagration by Mick Farren (book review).
‘Conflagration’ is the sequel to ‘Kindling’ which’ unfortunately’ I have not read. I say ‘unfortunate’ as ‘Conflagration’ is a cracking read and perhaps…
ReviewScifi
Interzone # 240 – May-Jun 2012 (magazine review).
This is the May-June 2012 edition of the magazine with a cover depicting a figure with a human head but robotic human body…
ReviewScifi
The Stars Blue Yonder by Sandra McDonald (book review).
The inside cover note says that Chief Terry Myell died and became a god and now he’s back to life. He is being…