REVIEW: The Few and Cursed: Heart Shaped Ambition
The world of The Few and Cursed is a fresh take on the post-apocalyptic setting: a world where almost all the world’s water vanished overnight in 1840. What we’re left with is a world...
REVIEW: Age of the Undead by C.L. Werner
The zombie genre has become a lot like its subject matter – often shambling, lifeless and stale. Age of the Undead, by C.L. Werner, successfully navigates the familiar waters of a zombie apocalypse by...
REVIEW: The Harrowing of Doom by David Annandale
Despite being the first entry (of 4, as of this writing) in the prose novel series Marvel Untold, David Annandale’s The Harrowing of Doom is the last entry I’ve read. I discovered the series...
REVIEW: Reign of the Devourer by David Annandale
Marvel Untold is a series of prose novels which tell darker stories of the Marvel Comics Universe. David Annandale’s Reign of the Devourer is the fourth installment in the Marvel Untold series, and the...
REVIEW: The Patriot List by David Guymer
Growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I was a dedicated Marvel Comics fan. By the time I got to my late teens and early 20s I went through an unfortunate too...
REVIEW: The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar
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...
REVIEW: Blindsight by Peter Watt
Originally published in 2006, Peter Watt’s Blindsight tells the story of what happens when 65,000 alien probes flashed simultaneously, instantaneously surveying the earth. When a probe of our own intercepts an extraterrestrial signal of...
Review: Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky came up with the idea of Roadside Picnic in Komorovo, a Russian town about an hour from St. Petersburg, in 1970. The brothers wrote the story in 1971, and...