There have been some memorable movie tag lines over the years. ‘In space, no-one can hear you scream’, ‘Check in. Unpack. Relax. Take a shower’, and ‘Man is the warmest place to hide’ (kudos if you know all three) are some which immediately spring to mind. However, I can’t recall ever being compelled to read... Continue Reading →
I love crime stories and I LOVE food. So Rob Hart’s Take-Out…and other tales of culinary crime sounded like a great change of pace from the sci-fi tear that I’ve been on lately. Now, if you knew nothing about the author, Rob Hart, reading this collection would certainly make one thing abundantly clear; the man... Continue Reading →
If I was allowed to save just one book from a fire in my apartment, it would be my annotated HP Lovecraft collection. Nothing enthrals me quite like a story about a terrifying monster in some weird and remote location. So when I heard about SA Sidor’s The Beast of Nightfall Lodge, I immediately requested an... Continue Reading →
Declaring a book to be a ‘love letter’ to one of the most beloved pieces of popular culture could be seen as somewhat of a risk. While such a strategy would almost certainly increase the book’s readership, it would also undoubtedly place it under much more intense levels of scrutiny.... Continue Reading →
I must admit, I’ve been sitting on this for quite some time. Being particularly fond of Miyazaki’s 2004 animated film, I was concerned I would be unable to read the book without being overly influenced by the film. Ultimately, it took a rave review from my partner to persuade me to dust it off... Continue Reading →
As someone whose memory and attention span can often be found wanting, I have always been a fan of short story anthologies. I can read an entire story in one sitting and get the satisfaction of an ending each time I pick up the book. Not only that,but it’s perfectly fine if forget everything that... Continue Reading →
It would be quite easy to say that Joyce Carol Oates’ Hazards of Time Travel is nothing more than a derivative warning of the course that western society and politics is headed. Dig a little deeper, however, and we find an interesting,if flawed, critique of what drives human behaviour. I found getting through the books... Continue Reading →
“The books sizzled and sparked, with the occasional discharge of undirected magic.” Although the quote above may have been in reference to the grimoires of Discworld’s Unseen University library, I’m sure that the bibliophiles among us (and I can’t imagine you’d be here if you weren’t one) have described their favourite books as having such... Continue Reading →
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the Unseen University library exists within what is known as library-space[L-space], which connects the space-time continuum of all libraries that exist on the disc. This L-space not only allows people to travel between any two libraries that exist, it also means that books and information that exist in one library... Continue Reading →
