Kim Newman was way ahead of the curve when it came to re-inventing historical stories with supernatural and fictional characters woven in. His vampire series imagines what it would be like if Dracula had succeeded in taking over England and if Jack the Ripper was a vampire hunter. Johnny Alucard is the fourth book in […]
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Huge, hard sci-fi: A review of Bowl of Heaven
Bowl of Heaven is a combined project from sci-fi faves Larry Niven and Gregory Benford. I’m in the interesting position of having read both Bowl of Heaven and the followup Shipstar based on recommendations for the latter of the two. Bowl of Heaven is harder to get into and ends in such a way that […]
Middle Earth map annotated by J.R.R. found in a book
This map was found in a book owned by the illustrator Pauline Baynes. Baynes had been tasked with creating illustrations by Tolkien’s publishers Allen & Unwin in 1970. In drawing her own map she worked with J.R.R. Tolkien who suggested edits on the like of city locations, flora and fauna. We get to discover that […]
Russians against the angel: A review of Truth and Fear
Truth and Fear is Peter Higgin’s strong sequel to Wolfhound Century. I used “communist angel punk” to try and summarise Wolfhound Century and Truth and Fear is more of the brilliant same. We’ve a State Investigator, now essentially hunted by the State, teamed up with the daughter of a terrorist, now an assassination target for […]
The Man with Ten Thousand Eyes born from five movie posters
Late last year Geek Native featured The coolest Kaiju films that didn’t feature Godzilla. It was a post from freelance artist and comic creator Joe Badon. Badon’s back with another Kickstarter – The Man with Ten Thousand Eyes https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1857321894/the-man-with-ten-thousand-eyes That’s some surreal storytelling right there! Imagine having all that power but all those eyes running […]
Competition: Queen of the Dark Things
He’s been compared to Neil Gaiman but has his own, strangely chummy, way with words and in Queen of the Dark Things C. Robert Cargill takes us on an adventure not just to Australia but to the world of the faerie. Following on from Dreams and Shadows, Queen of the Dark Things is set half […]
Witches and Assassins: A review of Assassin’s Creed 1
The new Assassin’s Creed comic is a new Assassin’s Creed line. We feature Charlotte de la Cruz who is a well-educated, geeky, counter-culture, black American woman with a shit job. The comic gets straight to the point; she’s not a middle class white dude. I won’t have a go at writers Anthony Del Col and […]
Communist angel punk? A review of Wolfhound Century
Peter Higgins’ Wolfhound Century is one of those books that feels like it should start a genre. The geeky thing to do would be add “punk” to the end. What we have a huge world, a huge country and a huge capital city wrapped up in a State knows best communist style empire. Our hero […]
Callout cover: Colder – Toss the Bones
Juan Ferreyra’s cover for the next Colder is worthy of a callout. What a clever idea and fantastic scene. This is the third in the five-part Colder: Toss the Bones series. Paul Tobin’s Eisner-nominated series follows ex-inmate Declan Thomas who can step inside a person’s madness so that he, sometimes, can cure it. The comic […]
Competition: SF Masterworks collection
The SF Masterworks series is so important it has its own Wikipedia page. Back in 1999 Millennium started to pick the very best of sci-fi from the 1950s for reprint. It’s now run by Victor Gollancz and continues on its mission. The original list was described as amazing by Ian M Banks. In this competition […]
