Good morning, I’m sick again and the sun has disappeared so I can’t sit around in the garden writing. I’m going to laze in luxury in my room instead. I have two book reviews to write; I’ve been putting them off because of working, but it’s Saturday and I actually have a bit of free time.Continue reading “May Reviews”
Category Archives: Science Fiction
Review: ‘The Greenland Breach’ by Bernard Besson
Details
Originally published: Groenland
2011
Odile Jacob (France)
Present edition: Translated by Julie Rose
2013
Le French Book (New York)
ISBN:9781939474070
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Friday evening zombies
Since I’ve felt more dead than alive for the last week, and I managed to catch Resident Evil: Extinction on the telly last night, I thought I’d have a film evening today. Zombie films. New ones I haven’t seen before.Continue reading “Friday evening zombies”
Review:’Intervention: The Pandora Virus’ by WRR Munro
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Review: ‘Steam City Pirates’ by Jim Musgrave
Steam City Pirates
Pat O’Malley Steampunk Mysteries
Jim Musgrave
English Majors Editors and Publishers, LLC
Pub Date: Dec 1 2013
Like Alice’s rabbit, a strange “mechanical-like man” leads 1869 New York Detective Pat O’Malley down into the world of steam power. A group from the future calling itself the World Scientific Advancement Society for Progress is living secretly beneath Central Park. These pirates are inventors whose only goal is to keep the Earth in the Steam Age in order to save it from a future nuclear holocaust. Five alien assassins from other universes are ordered to kill O’Malley and his group, and each alien has a unique ability to do the job. As the Steam City Pirates build a steam-powered amusement park on Coney Island, O’Malley and his group are hunted down in the streets of New York City. The future of the world is at stake in this mystery and adventure featuring a twisting plot, steampunk time travel, steam men duels, crafty inventions, and monsters from other planets.
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Review: ‘The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys’
Written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon
Artwork by Becky Cloonan
20th May 2014
Dark Horse Comics
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I’ve found this marvelous website
That emails science fiction and fantasy stories daily. My last post shared an example of the fiction they publish. I’m quite looking forward to my daily email.
Daily Science Fiction :: Ghosts of Janus by Day Al-Mohamed
Daily Science Fiction :: Ghosts of Janus by Day Al-Mohamed.
Slightly creepy story.
Review: ‘A God-Blasted Land: The Bastard Cadre # 1’ by Lee Carlon
Clockwork Samurai
Originally published 2011, this edition published October 2013
The first of three e-books published so far (the forth is in progress) about a group of young people bound from birth by magic to a gods Chosen representative. Set on a ravaged planet where cities have fallen into ruin, technology and magic co-exist, and the decimated population is ruled by a small group of Chosen and policed by the Bondsmen.
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Everything Is Better With Dragons 