ReviewBooks
Agent To The Stars by John Scalzi (book review)
I first came across John Scalzi when I read ‘Old Man’s War’. This book made a big impression on me and is one…
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Hand of Fire – The Comics Art Of Jack Kirby by Charles Hatfield (book review).
One is always wary when the academics get their hands on popular culture. I was recently re-reading Kingsley Amis on the subject in…
ReviewBooks
A Forthcoming Wizard by Jody Lynn Nye (book review).
Chapter One contains a recap of events from book one, ‘An Unexpected Apprentice’, so you don’t need to have read it to find…
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Scholar (The Imager Portfolio book 4) by L.E. Modesitt Jr. (book review).
‘Scholar’, the fourth book in ‘The Imager Portfolio’, opens with the furniture of fantasy: a cast list and a map. The other genre…
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Enterprise Games: Using Games Mechanics To Build A Better Business by Michael Hugos (book review).
I had to put the full title, ‘Enterprise Games’, in or you would think there was a ‘Star Trek’ connection, when actually it…
ReviewScifi
The Creative Fire (book one of Ruby’s Song) by Brenda Cooper (book review).
From the start, author Brenda Cooper points out her lead character, Ruby Martin, has been influenced by the life of Eva Peron in…
ReviewGames
Blood Bowl: Team Manager (card game review)
A quick clarification. ‘Blood Bowl: Team Manager’ is a spin-off game of another highly successful board-game called ‘Blood Bowl’. That game was first…
ReviewBooks
Kingdom Of The Wicked (Skulduggery Pleasant book 7) by Derek Landy (book review)
If magic’s a disease, the seventh book in the ‘Skulduggery Pleasant series has had an epidemic outbreak on the level of the Black…
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The Last Myth by Mathew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles (book review).
As usual with many of Prometheus Book titles, ‘The Last Myth’s sub-title gives more about the product than the main title which doesn’t…
ReviewScifi
Jupiter # 38: XXXVIII Pasithee (magazine review).
Another issue of ‘Jupiter’, as regular as the satellites orbiting the planet, as good as ever and with six scintillating stories for you…
ReviewHorror
Bloody Christmas (DVD review).
Christmas is coming and the goose is going to get slaughtered, accompanied by quite a few others in this not so cheery movie…
ReviewBooks
Crucible Of Gold (a novel of Temeraire book 7) by Naomi Novik (book review).
It is rare for all books in a series to be equally good. Readers will have their favourites and this can generate a…