Finders Keepers – Stephen King
Finders Keepers – Stephen King (Hodder) “Shit don’t mean shit…” Finders Keepers is the follow-up to King’s Mr. Mercedes. The story begins in 1978, when Morris Bellamy and two accomplices break into the home of…
Book Reviews
Men, women, and other aliens
Growing up in the 1970s, consuming science fiction in novel and TV form, it took me a little while to realise that the people like me didn’t, on the whole, drive the adventures. Take Blake’s…
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My Life In Books… Lindsay Schoolcraft (Cradle Of Filth)
1. Boring Girls – A Novel by Sara Taylor “This has been my most current read and I had a hard time putting it down. I started reading it on tour and it was such…
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Punk USA – The Rise And Fall Of Lookout! Records – Kevin Prested
Punk USA – The Rise And Fall Of Lookout! Records – Kevin Prested (Microcosm Publishing) Why do some punk / hardcore labels have a magical ring to them? It\’s not that Revelation has better releases…
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“Meh” by Eric Brown
I’ve written science fiction, fantasy, horror and slipstream reviews for the Guardian for almost a decade, and before that infrequent pieces for Infinity Plus, Paperback Inferno and Vector. In that time I’ve covered hundreds of…
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Rise of the Super Furry Animals – Ric Rawlins
Rise of the Super Furry Animals – Ric Rawlins (Harper Collins) An engaging, fast paced and fun account of the incarnation of one of Wales most successful, innovative and subversive bands. Rawlins eschews the traditional…
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TwoMorrows\’ new book Monster Mash digs up the dirt on the 1960s Monster Craze in America
This week, TwoMorrows Publishing releases Monster Mash, a new full-color hardcover that time-trips back to the frightening era of 1957-1972, when monsters stomped into the American mainstream. Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in 1957,…
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Paul Kane
If memory serves me right, I think my association with Mass Movement goes back to around the time the first Arrowhead novel came out. Certainly not that long afterwards. I was asked by editor Tim…
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Geographies of the Mind
[I cheated, all part of the writer\’s confidence trick – this is a purely political map. A topographical one will be forthcoming]. I love maps. I love poring over them, I like buying them. If…
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Day Four – Sarah Lotz
Day Four – Sarah Lotz (Hodder & Stoughton) Creepy happenings on the cruise from hell. Day Four is the follow-up to Sarah Lotz’s debut novel under her own name (she also makes up one half…
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Bloodfellas – Jasper Bark, Mick Trimble & Aljosa Tomic
Bloodfellas – Jasper Bark, Mick Trimble & Aljosa Tomic (Markosia) You know that old saying, ‘It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there’? That’s what I imagine it’s like in…
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Crate Digger: An Obsession With Punk Records – Bob Suren
Crate Digger: An Obsession With Punk Records – Bob Suren (Microcosm Publishing) A unique and personal journey through Suren’s immersion in the punk scene and how his obsession with collecting rare punk vinyl impacted every…
