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Moonwatcher’s Memoir, a Diary of 2001 A Space Odyssey, by Dan Richter (book review).
One of the things about reading books is that they sometimes point to other books that need attention. Before you ask, I don’t…
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Batman: Volume 4: Zero Year – Secret City [The New 52] by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo and Danny Miki (graphic novel review).
After the Joker’s demise, it did seem a bit weird to jump back six years and see Bruce Wayne returning to Gotham City.…
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Black Ships by Jo Graham (book review).
‘Black Ships’ is an interesting retelling of Aeneus’s story from the perspective of Gull, a priestess of Apollo. While Jo Graham’s novel might…
ReviewBooks
HP Lovecraft Collected Essays Volume 1: Amateur Journalism edited: ST Joshi (book review).
Of all the volumes in this series, ‘Collected Essays Volume 1: Amateur Journalism’ was the one for which I had the least sense…
ReviewFantasy
The Wolfe At The Door by Gene Wolfe (book review).
To many readers, Gene Wolfe was best known for his ‘Book of the New Sun’ series, which began with ‘The Shadow of the…
ReviewMovie books
Industrial Light & Magic: Into The Digital Realm by Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan (book review).
I hadn’t previously come across ‘Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm’ by Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan, but I…
ReviewScifi
Insignificant by Mike Morgan (book review).
The year is 2127; the Earth is dying, and nobody seems to notice or care. The United States government refuses to release any…
ReviewComics
Comic Book Creator #29 Winter 2023 (magazine review).
This edition of ‘Comic Book Creators’ is a real melting pot of interviews, so I’m picking out the points of interest. Let’s begin…
ReviewScifi
Childhood’s End (2015) (TV series review).
It was a toss-up between ‘Riverworld’ and ‘Childhood’s End’ to have a look at, and the latter won. I think I only saw…
ReviewMagazines
Back Issue #151 June 2024 (magazine review).
This edition of ‘Back Issue’ focuses on ‘Dreams and Nightmares’. Editor Michael Eury emphasizes that the inclusion of writer Neil Gaiman in the…
ReviewBooks
Fight Me by Austin Grossman (book review).
Super-hero novels are a bit of an oddity to me because I grew up reading about such characters in comic book form and…
ReviewSpy-Fy
M.I. High: The Sinister Prime Minister and Other Adventures (TV spy-fy review).
Years ago, I caught a few snippets of ‘M.I. High’ on TV and thought I would look for a boxset. The first season…