NARR8 is an interesting app for gamers and readers. The iPhone app hit 250,000 downloads in its first two weeks and is expected to launch shortly on Android and tablets. They’ve teamed up with Vadim Panov, a Russian fantasy author, to adapt the 15 book The Secret City series to the NARR8 format. Vadim’s been […]
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Wizards without Coats: Bard
I think I’ve travelled with that bard.
Skulls for Blue Monday
Photograph by FirefuryAmahira Today is Blue Monday. This means, if you believe the spin, today is the most depressing day of the year. Has a necromancer cast a gloom spell across the whole country? There’s also The Aylesford Skull. The Aylesford Skull is the first novel from James P. Blaylock in twenty years. Blaylock is […]
Is there a Heroes for Hire movie coming?
Marvel is doing well at the cinema. I think movies like Guardians of the Galaxy might represent diversification as attempt to attract new audiences. The sci-fi fanbase, for example, still isn’t one that the Marvel film efforts have reached. Are there other genres that Marvel might want to target? Martial arts? A slightly more gritty […]
Wonder Woman as a Scythian warrior
Wonder Woman is supposed to be something of an Amazon. Not from Brazil, but a culture more like Greek Amazon from mythology. The Amazons, who fought in the Trojan War, were supposed to be from the region of Scythia. It may be the case that rumours of actual warrior graves in Scythia, in which burried […]
Competition – How they made the Life of Pi
Have you seen Life of Pi? The film by Ang Lee has some amazing special effects and tells a story that asks questions about life, death, religion and nature. The Making of Life of Pi is a hardcover from Jean-Christophe Castelli. Castelli has worked for companies like Vanity Fair and Esquire before he started to […]
Competition: Fringe – September’s Notebook
Fringe fan? Based in the UK? Got some great news for you – you can win a copy of the “in show” September’s Notebook here at Geek Native. In the States? Sorry, can’t release the book outside the UK but you can pre-order at Amazon US. In the show September has / will (time is […]
Wizards without Coats: Hand Gestures
Clubs are effective agains wizards. The startWizards without Coats Next > Next time you cast a spell to warm your cocoa, could you please… NOT USE HAND GESTURES! Today, Geek Native launches a new series: Wizards without Coats. Remind you of any RPG companies? Can’t think who. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Fans of […]
New X-Men, except woman
It’s a new X-Men series, in a way. The new X-Men will actually focus on some female characters and will be the third X-Men title out of Marvel Now. Who features? Kitty Pryde, Psylocke, Rachel Gray, Rogue, Storm and in the main role there will be Jubilee. Writer Brian Wood told American press; “I feel […]
A Glass Thorns: Touchstone review
Glass Thorns: Touchstone is the first in a series by established writer Melanie Rawn. It’s an interesting book to review. More on that later. Touchstone is set in a high fantasy world not terribly long after a terrible magical war. On the surface it seems like quite a cheery world now but scratch below the […]
