If romance existed solely in the world of the fantastical and the fairytale, then every great meeting of heart and mind would proceed unfettered and unencumbered by the tedious demands of our all too banal world. But alas we do not live in the realm of sweeping, horizon-free love, and Continue Reading
Book review: The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fiction is in love with the idea of the multiverse. And why would it not be? The idea that there are multiple earths all strung together, cheek-by-jowl on a daisy chain of quantum mechanical marvelry is a beguiling one, ripe as it is with the alluring prospect of infinite possibilities Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Artistically rendered The Mandalorian quotes
There is a fandom … and then there is FANDOM. That’s not to say that there’s a ranking in fandom; it’s anything but – if you like a show like The Mandalorian, and by extension, Star Wars overall, you are a fan however it is expressed by you. But there Continue Reading
Book review: Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Giving someone a place they can belong which is safe and secure, which allows them to thrive and not simply get by, and which is loving and full of care is just about the greatest gift you can give someone. Deep down somewhere, 14-year-old autistic teenager Ginny Moon, the eponymous Continue Reading
Comics review: The Montague Twins – The Witch’s Hand by Nathan Page and Drew Shannon
Diving into a thrilling, mysterious adventure is one of the most exhilarating things you can do. While these are in short supply in the real world, given its predisposition to banality and the same-old, same-old, they are in multitudinous abundance in graphic novels such as the late-1960s set The Montague Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery – “Su’Kal” & “There is a Tide …” (S3, E11 & S12 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THINGS TO BE VERY AFRAID OF … VERY … You could argue that this happens each and every week, which is true in a sense since Star Trek has always been a show that is about the good and bad decisions the upstanding citizens of the Continue Reading
Book review: The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle by Neil Blackmore
Love, in and of itself, is almost universally a good and perfect thing. It encompasses and supports, it fill us with hope and security and a sense of purpose and care, and it makes once dull things feel vital and alive in ways their once vapid sheen never suggested. In Continue Reading
Hello Han Grant or is that Cary Solo? Inventive mash-up unites Star Wars and North by Northwest
SNAPSHOTThis time, he is their only hope!Cary Grant is back in a new galactic adventure!When Alfred Hitchcock meets George Lucas… (synopsis via Laughing Squid (c) Fabrice Mathieu) It might seem like the unlikeliest of combinations but French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu has found a way, a highly-talented and brilliantly entertaining way to Continue Reading
Book review: Axiom’s End (Noumena, Volume 1) by Lindsay Ellis
First contact with alien species usually go one of three ways. Either they turn up in ships beyond number and equipped with power and technology beyond imagining and invade the hell out of us; or they arrive bearing bouquets of world peace and the sharing of all knowledge and then Continue Reading
Comics review: Adventureman by Fraction / Dodson / Dodson / Cowles
If you’re going to go on adventure from the comfort of your own home, and let’s face it, necessity has made this the only real option in a time of pandemic, then the only way to really make it worth your while is to plunge into the steampunk-esque, Art Deco Continue Reading