Lavie Tidhar’s The Escapement is the story of a father’s hopelessness as his son lies dying in a hospital. The story shifts back and forth between his real world agony...
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REVIEW: The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar
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Lavie Tidhar’s The Escapement is the story of a father’s hopelessness as his son lies dying in a hospital. The story shifts back and forth between his real world agony and the darkly fantastic land known as the Escapement. There he takes on the role of the Stranger, a gunslinger seeking the healing flower Ur-Shanabi. The Escapement takes us to a surreal wild west landscape peopled with mythical beings, stone colossi, demonic shadow beings, and of course… clowns? As the Stranger pursues...
Game of Thrones S2 continues the intriguing, bloody epic telling of George RR Martin’s hugely popular A Song of Ice and Fire. With the honourable Ned Stark’s death allowing the Lannisters to tighten their...
Behind Blue Eyes by Anna Mocikat is the first book of the same series. It is an independently published book and was mentioned in our recent recommendations of indie cyberpunk listicle. While some people...
Half a War is the concluding instalment of Joe Abercrombie’s epic Shattered Sea trilogy. It is a satisfying conclusion to the saga but it is hard to say how without spoiling some of the...
We continue our episode-by-episode coverage of Warhammer TV’s Angels of Death with episode 4, Awakenings. And from the outset, during a flashback, where Kazarion speaks of the Black Rage with the mighty Lord Mephiston...
A little bit fantasy, a little bit horror, A Ritual Bone was a whole lot of awesome. Lee C. Conley crafted an excellent fantasy that is liberally sprinkled with viscera, although never at the...
With The Wisdom of Crowds being released this week, Gollancz gave me the opportunity to interview Joe Abercrombie about the influences for The Age of Madness and Bayaz, the risks of putting new characters into...
The Loop is a freaky story: a little bit War of the Worlds, a little bit Stranger Things, and a little bit, huh? Have you ever heard of Turner Falls, Oregon? A typical little city with...
Having absolutely loved A Little Hatred and The Trouble with Peace, my expectations for The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie were absolutely sky high. With this gritty and fun book full of civil unrest, backstabbing, butchery,...
Deep in the Hive, the Blood Angels space marines continue to battle the masses of Tyranid cultists in the hopes of finding their captain in the latest release from Warhammer TV, Angels of Death:...
