The Martian – Andy Weir
The Martian – Andy Weir (Del Rey) In our ongoing exploration and experimentation of the planet Mars to see just how inhabitable it really is, astronaut Mark Watney was stranded there after an emergency evacuation….
The Martian – Andy Weir (Del Rey) In our ongoing exploration and experimentation of the planet Mars to see just how inhabitable it really is, astronaut Mark Watney was stranded there after an emergency evacuation….
Sensorama – Editor: Allen Ashley (Eibonvale Press) Collection of 21 short stories in which the senses play centre stage with suitably unsettling, and in some cases, nauseating results. The stories are a mix of horror,…
End of a Century – Run Wrake Editor: Andrew Collins (Self Made Hero) End of a Century is a collection of artwork by Bafta nominated artist Run Wrake (who sadly passed away in 2012), submitted…
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk: The Story of Starfleet’s Greatest Captain – Edited by David A. Goodman (Titan Books) “Space, the final frontier…” I don’t remember how old I was when I first heard…
For More than Glory (A Legion of the Damned Novel) – William C. Dietz (Titan Books) When a book series runs past a trilogy there is always a risk of it all becoming a bit…
Medicine for the Dead (Children of the Drought Book Two) – Arianne ‘Tex’ Thompson (Solaris) This is the second novel in the Children of the Drought’ series, the first, ‘One Night in Sixes’ is easily my…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…