ReviewDoctor Who
Doctor Who: The Mutants by Bob Baker and Dave Martin (DVD review).
The Doctor (actor Jon Pertwee) finds himself becoming a delivery boy to the Time Lords as he has to deliver a locked box,…
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ReviewScifi
The Peacock Cloak by Chris Beckett (book review).
I enjoyed Chris Beckett’s first collection, the award-winning ‘The Turing Test’ and his recent novel, ‘Dark Eden’, so I was very happy to…
ReviewScifi
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse by John Smith, Lee Carter and Edmund Bagwell (comic-book review).
‘Indigo Prime’ is essentially a collection of three stories from ‘2000AD’, built up from work writer John Smith did back in 1991 and…
ReviewScifi
Homeland by Cory Doctorow (book review).
Older does not necessarily mean wiser, not for Marcus Yallow, hero of Cory Doctorow’s bestselling and award winning novel, ‘Little Brother’. The sequel,…
ReviewBooks
English Grammar For Dummies by Lesley J. Ward and Geraldine Woods (book review).
You know how it is, you look around a book remainder shop and spot a subject that you know something about and decide…
ReviewScifi
A Few Good Men (Darkship #3) by Sarah. A. Hoyt (book review).
Set in the same universe as ‘Darkship Thieves’ and ‘Darkship Renegages’, Sarah A. Hoyt’s new novel ‘A Few Good Men’ picks up the…
ReviewAnime/manga
From Up On Poppy Hill (movie review).
Goro Miyazaki, son of the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki, makes his own animated film. This is a straight drama with none of his…
ReviewBooks
The Inner City by Karen Heuler (book review)
‘The Inner City’ is a collection of speculative fiction by Karen Heuler. I mean truly speculative, it’s been a while since I have…
ReviewHorror
Lost Girl, Season One (DVD review).
Coming from Canada, ‘Lost Girl’ is apparently a successful TV series which is now into its third season. It has been shown around…
ReviewHorror
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles book 1) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (book review).
This is book one in the ‘Caster Chronicles’ a series of four books continuing in ‘Beautiful Darkness’, ‘Beautiful Chaos’ and ‘Beautiful Redemption’. This…
ReviewHorror
Black Static # 19 – Oct-Nov 2010 (magazine review).
When publishers make changes to the appearance of a product, there are two questions: Why and is it better? To be fair, the…
ReviewComics
Crossed: Volume 4: Badlands by Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows, Jamie Delano and Leandro Rizzo (graphic novel review).
‘Crossed: Volume 4: Badlands’ follows three previous collections of the ‘Crossed’ comics dating back to 2008. This is an ultra-violent, post-apocalyptic story set…