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Welcome to Geek Native's Books section, your portal to the multiverse of the written and illustrated word. From epic fantasy novels to the frontiers of science fiction, we keep you updated with timely book news and insightful reviews to help you discover your next great read.

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Continuing the archive of independent Books reporting (Archive Page 135).

Wizards without Coats: Mapping

July 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Looks like these guys have a problem with a backseat mapper. There’s always someone in the group who says they don’t want any responsibility mapping and yet who chips in when there’s a debate. That’s what is going on here. Right?

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

What? Batman to appear in Superman sequel

July 20, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Zack Snyder has big news at SD Comic Con. Batman will appear in the Superman sequel. Here’s the rather funky logo for the project. You may consider the following to be a spoiler. Stop reading if you are cautious. Man of Steel’s General Swanwick, played by Harry Lennix, made an appearance on stage at Comic […]

Filed Under: Comics, Movies Tagged With: batman, Frank Miller, Superman, Zack Snyder

Teaser art for The Crow reboot

July 20, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Shock Till You Drop have got their hands on this teaser art for James O’Barr‘s influenced reboot of The Crow. O’Barr has now been appointed as a consultant on the new film that’ll star Luke Evans. In an interview with STYD, Barr said; Brandon was a friend and I’d never do anything that hinted at […]

Filed Under: Comics, Movies Tagged With: the crow

Wizards without Coats: The Lottery

July 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m never so lucky!   < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > OMG! These are my numbers! In this week’s Wizards without Coats, we’re left to consider whether artist V Shane has the sort of humour only found among roleplayers. They say the chaos of a siege is a bit of a lottery, that chance and fortune […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

A review of The Guild: The Official Companion

July 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Guild Official Companion has an introduction from Felicia Day. Fear her. Wait, just to be clear; I don’t fear Felicia Day. That’s a quote from Josh Whedon (Buffy, Firefly, The Avengers). To give the full context; Her mind works faster than mine ever will and her mouth works faster than that. Felicia’s career will […]

Filed Under: Books, Online Shows Tagged With: Felicia Day, geek & sundry, Joss Whedon, reviews, the guild, Titan Books

Competition: Win one of three Pacific Rim novels

July 15, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pacific Rim is getting early rave reviews; giant mech fight for mankind against the Kaiju. Have you seen it yet? It looks like even the Jaegers, those giant mechs, aren’t enough to fight off the threat but mankind has one last chance – a washed up has-been pilot and an untested trainee coupled with a […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions, mecha, Pacific Rim

The real Iron Throne

July 11, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

These pictures are whisking around the web. Geek Native must be in the last 3% of blogs to share them and yet they’re still too good not to share. What we have here is an alternative to the iconic Iron Throne created by HBO for the Game of Thrones TV series. It’s the alternative and […]

Filed Under: Art, Books Tagged With: concept art, game of thrones, George R. R. Martin

Wizards without Coats: Your resurrection plan

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine a fantasy campaign in which conditional resurrection was a thing.   < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext >  Look… I am sorry, but being mangled and killed by an umber hulk, just isn’t covered under his resurrection plan! Uh-oh! Bad news about your resurrection plan. Why is that insurance policies typically fail to cover the very […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

Exclusive story and Executioner’s Heart competition

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 22 Comments

George Mann authors the audio scripts for the BBC’s Doctor Who and the Sherlock Holmes series. He writes the popular steampunk Newbury & Hobbes mystery series and the latest book in that is The Executioner’s Heart. Just what is Mann’s writing like? He had a challenge from Geek Native – write a Newbury & Hobbes […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions, george mann, steampunk, Titan Books

Amazon launch Jet City Comics

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Retail giant Amazon has announced its new imprint today, a business called Jet City Comics, that’ll allow its publishing arm to get into comic books and graphic novels. We already have some of the early line up for Jet City Comics. An original comic adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s story “Meathouse Man,” illustrated by Raya […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics Tagged With: amazon, George R. R. Martin

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