River of Pain is the last in the new and official of Alien Universe novels. Written by Christopher Golden the book explores the never-told-before story of doomed colony that featured in the original Aliens film. Ripley makes it back to Earth to discover that the planet LV-426 where the crew of the Nostromo found the […]
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The great comic book rescue? A review of She Makes Comics
She Makes Comics is a 70 minute long documentary on the fascinating topic of women in the comic book industry. It is fascinating. Did you know that women once read more comic books than men? What do you think the demographics split is today? It was a Kickstarter Project that raised over $50,000 that made […]
Life before death? A review of The Death House
Imagine a near future in which it no longer snows in England. The Government, sometimes referred to as Black Suits, has the power and the desire to take children away from families should genetic screening suggest the presence of the Defective gene. We can assume these Defectives have caused problems. There must be some reason for […]
Man meets Intelligence: A review of On The Steel Breeze
Don’t make the same mistakes as I did with Alastair Reynolds’s sci-fi. Despite the mermen and the ghosts I found the start of “On The Steel Breeze” to be quite slow. I wasn’t paying full attention when a few small paragraphs described how the main character Chiku divided into three identical copies and decided to […]
Paizo and Dynamite team again for Pathfinder Origins comic series
Paizo has announced Pathfinder Origins as the next comic series based on the Pathfinder RPG. The Redmond company has again teamed with Dynamite Entertainment for the work. In Pathfinder Origins the early days of the iconic Pathfinder heroes will be told and each issue will focus on one of them (Valeros, Seoni, Harsk, Merisiel, Kyra, […]
Drugs and the divine: A review of Mythbreaker
Gods are around and most of them aren’t very happy with humanity. It would be a bad idea to suddenly find yourself caught in the middle of their squabbles. That’s exactly what happens to the embezzler Louie Fitzsimmons. Fitz introduces Mythbreaker as drugs for sex post-coital favour goes badly wrong and the voices in his […]
Listen to The Dragons of Dorcastle
The Dragons of Dorcastle is an Audible exclusive. It’s written by Jack Campbell the author of the excellent military sci-fi series The Lost Fleet. Two Great Guilds control the world of Dematr; the Mechanics and the Mages. The only thing that the two guilds agreed on – the world must not change. Now a Storm […]
Competition: Win The Killing Time
The Killing Time is a novel set in the universe of the TV series Grimm. Follow Hank Griffin and Nick Burkhardt, two police detectives in Portland, as they are called to track down a missing person. The cops soon discover that a strange creature is stalking the streets, able to dissolve a victim with just […]
Actual alternative: A review of The Star Wars
The Star Wars is already an award winning comic; picking up the Diamond Gem Award for Best Licensed Comic in 2013. This graphic novel came out this winter and feels like an ideal gift for any Star Wars fans. You can imagine that Star Wars (A New Hope) had a script that was worked on […]
Mashpunk: A review of In Dark Service
I liked In Dark Service by the time I got to the end. The promise of the book kept me intrigued and although I may not ever understand why I struggled to push on through at the start, I am glad I got to the end. This is a good book. I had two concepts […]
