The BBC recently ran a piece, titled Close encounters of the Arab kind by Lydia Green, about Arab Sci-Fi that spoke to Ameri-Euro-centrality of most published science fiction. She went on to explain the impact that Arab literature has had on Western literature and even had the first recognizable Sci-Fi story. She doesn’t mention that […]
Book Review: ALIF THE UNSEEN by G. Willow Wilson
October 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If there is a better book than Alif The Unseen by G. Willow Wilson that showcases the nebulous nature of genre definitions and the trend towards the mélange of tropes so prevalent these days in genre fiction, then I can’t think of it. Mixing fantasy, mythology, cyberpunk and techno-thriller devices, Wilson has sculpted a world […]
Book Review and Giveaway: THREE by Jay Posey
October 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
All mutants, zombies, monsters, aliens and other semi-sentient beings aside, the end of the world leaves behind a surprising number of survivors – human survivors. That human detritus makes a surprising recovery regardless of whatever dystopian wasteland they inhabit. In Three, by Jay Posey, it’s the world before its fall that draws the reader in […]
Book Review: STAR WARS: EMPIRE AND REBELLION: RAZOR’S EDGE by Martha Wells
September 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Star Wars Expanded Universe has grown immensely since the early days when George Lucas gave the go-ahead to Timothy Zahn and a few others to begin writing stories that went beyond the original trilogy. There were the comic books too, of course. Then the prequels occurred – and things went the way of an […]
Graphic Novel Review: RUBICON by Long, Capel, Stilla and McQuarrie
September 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Graphic novels are wonderful constructs. They allow us to tell stories unlike any other and impart an understanding to readers that simple text on the page is in capable of. That’s not to knock the beauty of text, but the Seven Samurai retold as Navy SEALS, as awesome as it sounds, just wouldn’t work in […]
Book Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares by James Lovegrove
August 28, 2013 by 4 Comments
Sherlock Holmes has seen numerous iterations across the spectrum of media, some good some bad. James Lovegrove, the author of Age of Odin, is the latest author to put his pen to the test in Sherlock Holmes – The Stuff of Nightmares, and he excels. Lovegrove returns Holmes to his roots of 19th century London with […]
Book Review: PARASITE by Mira Grant
August 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The zombie apocalypse will be televised, but it will not be the rising of the undead according to Mira Grant, author of Feed, Blackout & Deadline. In her latest book, Parasite, and the first of the new Parasitology trilogy, zombies are the result of a reasonable scientific explanation and not magic. The problem is the […]
Book Review: iD by Madeline Ashby
July 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Madeline Ashby’s The Machine Dynasty series takes place in a world where Christian leaders have created robots (called vN) to provide for those left behind in the event of the biblical Rapture. This has not happened, and the aftermath of their preparation is neither utopia or dystopia. What we do have is a compelling story […]
Book Review: WOLFSANGEL by M.D. Lachlan
July 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Wolfsangel is the first book in the Claw Trilogy. Penned by M.D. Lachlan, an alias of Mark Barrowcliffe, Wolfsangel is a novel about the Norse mythos and werewolves during the Viking age. In this book, creatures of legend and gods of myth retake their place as world-shapers and destroyers, playing with the fates of human […]
