The flourish of pink text that read “The Enchantment Emporium” on the front of the book reminded me of the made for the female audience romance novels I sometimes see during my trips through airports. Not my type of book. The Enchantment Emporium, however, is a Tanya Huff book. I know Huff from the Confederation […]
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Out of this world fitba: A review of Rok of the Reds
Brace yourself for a laugh at my expense! I saw a small comic company based in my native Scotland, I saw the industry legends John Wagner and Alan Grant (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, et al) and I saw Intergalactic Spaceman. Would I review that? Of course! Sign me up. Except; I saw wrong. It’s not […]
Revolution or revenge: A review of Andromeda’s Choice
William Dietz is known for the Legion of the Damned series. I’ve not read that. I picked up at Andromeda’s Fall instead. In other words, with Andromeda’s Choice, I’m reading the sequel to the prequel series. I rather like it this way. If time allows I’ll move onto the Legion of the Damned and perhaps […]
Best of three: A review of The Girl on the Liar’s Throne
The Girl on the Liar’s Throne is a rare fantasy – it is the last in the trilogy and the best in the series. You can check my reviews for the first book The Boy with the Porcelain Blade and the sequel The Boy Who Wept Blood and see how the series starts of good, […]
Hey beautiful… let’s skip straight to the fun part
Things in Squares is run by Cale as a way to stay active in web design, drawing and humour. I’d say this Magic: The Gathering / pub pick-up joke is good enough to boost the web comic’s readership.
Fear the social media followers: A review of The Kill Screen
I looked at the first issue – ILOVEYOU – of The Kill Screen back in 2014 and really liked Mike Garley’s comic book project. This wasn’t a zombie end of the world. This was a weird apocalypse in which people had become infected by some weird digital virus. Those infected seem to manifest digital pixels […]
The DC logo and strange meerkat mystery
DC Entertainment has a new logo. It designed so DC Entertainment can relevant to multimedia formats *movies, cough* and not just comic books. The page turn effect is no longer there. We should see this new logo for DC Universe: Rebirth. Here’s what DC’s Chief Creative Officer had to say; “I’m very proud that REBIRTH […]
Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook covers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a name American readers might know from the NBA but as it happens Abdul-Jabbar is a Mycroft Holmes fan and back in 2015, with Anna Waterhouse, he published his first novel Mycroft Holmes. The story about Sherlock’s elder brother currently has 4.5 stars aggregate reviews over on Amazon UK. Now the polymath […]
Exclusive: An extract from Joe Abercrombie’s Sharp Ends
Sharp Ends was introduction to the World of the First Law. There’s ‘grimdark’ fantasy done well (and often) in this series of short stories. For me, as a newcomer, it was a chance to meet interesting people and match as many of them die. It was a chance to meet interesting people and wonder, when […]
Grimdark done well: A review of Sharp Ends
Sharp Ends is a collection of short stories and is my introduction to Joe Abercrombie’s World of the First Law. I’m not sure how to tackle Sharp Ends. Let’s begin with the important stuff; I really enjoyed it. In Sharp Ends the characters feel real and are interesting. Bad things happen to good people. I’m […]
