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A Game Of Thrones: The Board Game: Second Edition (board game review).
Righto, another ‘A Song Of Fire And Ice’ by George RR Martin inspired game published by Fantasy Flight Games, but not to be…
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June 2013
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Blameless (The Parasol Protectorate Book The Third) by Gail Carriger (book review).
‘Blameless’ is book three in ‘The Parasol Protectorate’ preceded by ‘Soulless’ and ‘Changeless’ and followed on by ‘Heartless’ and ‘Timeless’. As this is…
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300 Rise of an Empire… first poster.
Based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel Xerxes, this new chapter of the saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield—on the sea—as…
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug… first trailer.
There’s a new trailer out for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – with some serious elven action and a few old friends…
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Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three (book review).
Given the events of a week back, how I could possibly give this collection a bad review? The legendary author Jack Vance passed…
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Vurt: 20th Anniversary Edition by Jeff Noon (book review).
Want to change your reality? Or maybe you already have and your life as you know it is very different. How would you…
May 2013
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Jade Man’s Skin (The Moshui Trilogy book two) by Daniel Fox (book review).
The dragon is awake and she is furious. With only one young man, Han, preventing her from wreaking slaughter throughout the land it…
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The Warrior Who Carried Life by Geoff Ryman (book review).
When Cara is just a young girl, her mother is brutally murdered because she dared to go and seek a vision, a privilege…
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Cold Magic (Spirit Walker book 1) by Kate Elliott (book review).
‘Cold Magic’ by Kate Elliott kicks off with the rather chilly statement: ‘The history of the world begins in ice, and it will…
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There Be Dragons by Peter Hallett (book review).
Peter Hallett’s debut novel, ‘There Be Dragons’, mixes the unlikely element of dragons into the chaos of the Vietnam War and it works.…
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The Narrows by James Brogden (book review).
There are a lot of books around at the moment that call themselves urban fantasy. Many of them have mythical creatures and ways…
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Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee (book review).
‘Conservation Of Shadows’ is a collection of short stories by Yoon Ha Lee. Like shadows, many of the stories are furtive in…