Will we suffer an end of the world? An apocalypse? If it happens what do you think the cause will be? The Midgard Serpent? A zombie outbreak? The rise of the robots? In May, Geek Native had a copy of Jon Wallace’s excellent and post-apocalyptic Barricade to give away. In the competition we asked two […]
Competition: Barricade
Good news! Barricade is out as a paperback. Geek Native gave the gritty sci-fi a positive review last July and I added it to my Best of the Year 2014 roundup at Forbidden Planet. You can buy Barricade at Amazon. Now you can win Jon Wallace’s adventure and follow Kenstibec’s trip from Edinburgh to London […]
Fast moving: A review of Barricade
My business trip started with a taxi ride from the bottom of Leith Walk in Edinburgh, I got to London, spent two days in business meetings and then flew home. I read Barricade in that time. I mention my own travelling not just to illustrate how fast moving and compelling Barricade is but also because […]
Gollancz to reward savvy geeks
In the ecommerce world there is a tactic called dynamic pricing. If a large bookseller, for example, has a clever algorithm that knows you’ll rush to buy the next Game of Thrones book when it comes out then it’ll edge up the price of the hardback and let you know it’s there. Equally, if the […]
