The Sequential sale finishes tomorrow so now is the time to pick up something. And if you’re interested in spy fiction, you need to check out Mind MGMT Volume 1. Meru is a journalist and she’s worried she’s missed the boat. Her first book was huge but since then she’s had trouble focusing, hasn’t been …
So, Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation is out at cinemas now. It’s the fifth entry in the running, jumping, shooting, falling, and spying action movie series that’s spanned two decades at this point. Chances are you might have skipped a couple of the four previous ones. If you didn’t skip Mission:Impossible 2, well…I’m really sorry. Me …
The fastest way to deal with the uncertainties of adulthood is to remove them. That’s what Kyndra’s village have done. Every year, the teenagers who come of age step into a room with the village relic. It shows them their new name and their future and they leave as adults with a certain future and …
Now live at Escape Pod, Marina J. Lostetter‘s ‘Imma Gonna Finish You Off’ is a really funny, smart, sweet story about murder, why immortality could be rubbish and the world’s most reluctant detective. It’s great fun and I got to read it as well as introduce it so, if you fancy having a listen, click …
Podcastery: Escape Pod presents ‘Imma Gonna Finish You Off’ by Marina J. Lostetter
Jen Williams’ books were instrumental in finally helping me love fantasy fiction. She writes, like compatriots Andrew Reid, Den Patrick, Liz De Jager and Edward Cox, real people who react in real ways to magnificently unreal events. Plus, in Wydrin, Jen has created one of the definitive fantasy heroines of the century. And certainly the definitive …
New Comics Day! The weekly injection of new pop cultural experimentation and fun into the zeitgeist’s bloodstream! Or something! Either way here are some of the comics I’ve read, reviewed and enjoyed in the last week over at Travelling Man’s blog. A-Force and Secret Wars prove that this Summer’s big Marvel crossover is genuinely fun and different. We …
Gideon Smith is a hero of the Empire now, after his role in saving London from the Brass Dragon. That’s the official version anyway. The truth is far more complex; Gideon, while trained now, is still untested. More importantly, he’s a hero Of The Empire, meaning he goes where he’s told. But, when he’s called …
Isaac’s not a bad man. He’s done bad things but so has everyone else. In a very near future where its been decided there are too many people, Isaac and countless others like him have been forced to whatever they can to survive. That usually means murder. Which always means revenge. But there’s another option, …
We went to Disneyland Paris for Marguerite’s birthday about ten days ago and, one of the days, we got into Paris. That day being the Bastille Day Eve (That’s a thing now) the city was crammed but we still got to see some really fun stuff, as well as put a padlock on Pont Neuf …
I grew up on a small, almost entirely white, island in the middle of the Irish Sea. If you ever want to find it, just wait for a TV weather forecast. The place the forecast is usually standing in front of? That’s us. The Isle of Man taught me a lot. It taught me to …