ReviewScifi
Aria: Left Luggage (book 1 of 3) by Geoff Nelder (book review).
Everyone knows about the curate’s egg and that it was good in parts. Books can be like that, too. The problem often is…
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Argo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (album review)
Providing the score for Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’, the critically acclaimed tale of a CIA plan to remove six diplomats from Iran during a…
ReviewGames
Dead Space 3 Original Videogame Score by Jason Graves and James Hannigan (album review)
In space, no one can hear you scream. Be grateful for that, as the ‘Dead Space 3’ soundtrack will have you helping at…
ReviewGames
Call Of Duty: Black Ops II Original Soundtrack by Jack Wall (album review)
The main theme is composed by Reznor, giving the soundtrack a bit of name value but aside from the opening track which is…
ReviewFantasy
The House Of Rumour by Jake Arnott (book review)
Stories generally adhere to a set formula. There’s a lead character, a premise, some progress and usually an ending that all flow nicely…
ReviewBooks
Star Wars: The Essential Reader’s Companion by Pablo Hidalgo (book review).
Star Wars: The Essential Reader’s Companion by Pablo Hidalgo Thought the Star Wars universe was just six films and some Vodafone ads? Shame…
ReviewScifi
Splice (2009) (DVD review).
In many ways I would probably agree with director Vincenzo Natali that ‘Splice’ is a re-working of the Frankenstein myth. Only instead of…
ReviewBooks
The Batcave Companion by Michael Eury and Michael Kronenberg (book review).
I should say from the start that ‘The Batcave Companion’ isn’t actually a look at the various versions of the Batcave, although there…
ReviewScifi
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2013 Volume 124 # 706 (magazine review).
There are so many riches in an issue of ‘The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction’ that it’s hard to know where to…
ReviewScifi
On Spec: The Canadian Magazine Of The Fantastic vol 24 no. 3 # 90 (magazine review).
This is a themed issue of ‘On Spec’ and the theme is… Apocalypse! Themed issues and anthologies are often interesting because it’s fun…
ReviewScifi
Beast Master’s Planet: A Beast Master Omnibus by Andre Norton (book review).
‘Beast Master’s Planet’ contains two novels: ‘Beast Master’ and ‘Lord of Thunder’. Meerkats! Nowadays these cute little critters are used to sell insurance…
ReviewFantasy
Shadow Heir (Dark Swan series book 4) by Richelle Mead (book review).
Reaching the end of series, whether of three books or fifteen can provoke mixed responses. A well-written, nicely shaped set of novels about…