Robert Kirkman’s THE WALKING DEAD: RISE OF THE GOVERNOR – Listen up!
In a world where the dead refuse to lay down and die, you’d think zombies were the only bad guys to worry about, but in the post-apocalyptic saga, The Walking Dead, even rotting walkers take second place to the man known as The Governor. However, even the baddest evil has to begin somewhere and The [...]
Notes from New Sodom: The Kerspindle Kerfuffle
It was Friday night in the city of Writing when the shit hit the fan. I didn’t make it down to the SF Café myself till Saturday afternoon or so, having been off at a gig that Friday night; so when I finally stumbled in, somewhat worse for wear, to grab my daily brunch of coffee and a cigarette over the Twitter Gazette, the kerfuffle was already in full swing. It’s war! people were saying. War! The neighbouring states of Amazonia and Macmilland have gone to war!
I’ve seen the future – and it works for me! by Michael Hanlon
Another special guest bringing you the good at BSC today, and this one if for the SF fan and/or non-fiction fan–we all afterall, share the future. Michael Hanlon is one of Britain’s most successful science writers. He has been Science Editor at the Daily Mail for many years; prior to this he was at the Daily Express, the Independent and Irish News. He contributes regularly to magazines such as the Spectator and appears on TV and radio as a science pundit. He has headlined several science festivals and written three critically acclaimed popular science books before this one: The Science Of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The Real Mars and The Worlds of Galileo. His Eternity: Our Next Billion Years was recently released, and forthcoming he has 10 Questions Science Can’t Answer Yet (March 2010)–both from Palgrave (Macmillan).
Check out his article after the jump…
Book Review – World Without End
Author: Ken Follet Publisher: Macmillan Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007 Ken Follett wrote mostly thrillers until the publication of The Pillars of the Earth in 1989. This huge book focused on the construction of a cathedral in medieval England and was something of a risk for his published. A risk that paid off, it became [...]
Book Review – The Athenian Murders
Author: Jose Carlos Somoza Publisher: Macmillan Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2000 Being a fan of historical and literary mysteries, The Athenian Murders seemed just my kind of book – especially with a cover blurb by Julian Rathbone comparing it to The Name of the Rose. The comparison is justified: this is a brilliant and engrossing [...]
Book Review – Vellum
Author: Hal Duncan Cover Artist: Chris Shamwana, Neil Lang Publisher: Macmillan Binding: Paperback Publication Date: August 2005 Like any other year, 2005 was going to be a heavy book-buying year for me, and like every other year there are those dozen or so books I anticipated even more so than the rest of the worthy [...]
Book Review – Perdido Street Station
Author: China Mieville Cover Artist: Edward Miller Publisher: Macmillan Binding: Paperback Publication Date: March 2000 Fantasy? Science Fiction? “Urban” fantasy? “Gothic” fantasy? “Dark” fantasy? “Science” fantasy? How do we classify Perdido Street Station? Steampunk? Moorcockian? How about Lovecraftian? New Wave? I’ll take the author of the novel, China Mieville’s word for it and call it [...]
Book Review – Iron Council
Author: China Mieville Publisher: Macmillan Binding: Paperback Publication Date: July 2004 Fantasy has a plethora of great authors to offer readers of all likes, both contemporary and from the past, regardless if your tastes are for sprawling epic works, gothic, urban, high fantasy, or Sword/Sorcery novels, or collections, there are many choices on the shelves [...]
