Cixin Liu: interviewed by Gareth D Jones.
It’s a surprisingly warm October day in London and the Embankment is crowded with tourists. Outside the South Bank Centre,
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Death’s End (The Three-Body Trilogy book 3 of 3) by Cixin Liu translated by Ken Liu (book review).
The grand scale of Cixin Liu’s ‘The Three-Body Trilogy’ continues in this third volume ‘Death’s End’, translated from the Chinese,
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Burnt Offerings (1976) (dvd/Blu-ray film review).
Before the Rolf family, Ben (actor Oliver Reed) and Marion (actress Karen Black) and son Davey (actor Lee Montgomery), can
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Disturbed Digest # 14 – September 2016 (emag review).
‘Disturbed Digest’ is a magazine of fiction and poetry – lots of poetry! – but I will concentrate on the
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The Tourist by Robert Dickinson (book review).
With Robert Dickinson’s novel, ‘The Tourist’, you are thrown in at the deep end and have to work out what
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The Monster (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Bryan Bertino directs ‘The Monster’, a suspenseful horror film about a mother and daughter stranded at night on a deserted
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Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween (film review by Frank Ochieng)
For those so-called devoted Tyler Perry fans out there wondering why it took so long to bring back their favorite
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The MLJ Companion by Rik Offenberger, Paul Castiglia & Jon B. Cooke (book review).
Back in the 60s, very little of the Archie Comics range reached British shores beyond their comedy material and I
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Japan assesses its relation to the rest of the world and its relation to itself and its culture in a
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How To Draw Steampunk by Bob Berry, Joey Marsocci & Allison Deblasio (book review).
If you’re of a particular age, you will remember those massive but thin A3-sized Walter Foster published artbooks. Like me,
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