It Ruined My Life… Paul Tremblay
A short story changed my life. No, really, it did. I was twenty one years old and in my final semester at college. One of the last undergraduate courses I took was an intro to…
A short story changed my life. No, really, it did. I was twenty one years old and in my final semester at college. One of the last undergraduate courses I took was an intro to…
Ray is the last robot on Earth. A slightly skiffy, slightly noir-ish 1960s Earth. Half private detective and half morally blank killer, think a beefed-up Marvin The Paranoid Android wearing a trench coat in a…
It’s always a pleasure to take a stroll through the Sherlock Holmes universe, especially when it’s an expanded variety, as here. For as the title implies, the thirteen tales herein are not Holmes adventures per…
“Space, the final frontier…” I don’t remember how old I was when I first heard James Tiberius Kirk utter those immortal words; but their haunting, almost poetic refrain has stayed with me ever since. I…
The old library in my teen hometown, Maldon, was a dingy old church filled with rickety shelves carrying half a tonne of random old books. For someone as insatiable and broke as me, it was…
I’ve often wondered how Lovecraft would have felt if he’d known the effect and influence that his work would have on genre fiction, the thousands of authors determined to continue, and ensure the survival of…
After narrowly escaping death, Koko Martstellar (ex-corporate mercenary) and Jedidiah Flynn (depressed former sky-cop) are busy putting their lives back together, running a saloon/brothel on The Sixty Islands – the world\’s most violent and decadent…
Emperor Fu-Manchu – Sax Rohmer (Titan Books www.titanbooks.com) There was a time – and it wasn’t all that long ago from both a literary and a historical perspective – when heroes were square jawed, smoked…
Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir of Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons 3) – Marie Brennan (Titan Books) Wonders terrestrial and aquatic, ancient ruins, near drownings, and more kinds of dragon than you…
Assassin’s Creed: Leila (Volume 6) – Eric Corbeyryan, Djilalli Defali (Titan Books www.titanbooks.com ) The sixth hard back comic to be released by Titan Books sees the grand finale to Assassin’s Creed’s Egyptian Saga. In…
Dave vs The Monsters: Emergence (David Hooper Trilogy Book One) – John Birmingham (Titan Books) When an oil rig off the Gulf of Mexico digs too deep, a torrent of nightmares is unleashed the creatures…
Gestapo Mars – Victor Gischler (Titan Books) From the moment I first saw it, I knew I was going to love this book. I mean, come on, how could I not? With a cover featuring…