As you may or may not know, I have been known to dabble in creative arts beyond writing; including painting and digital art. This has come in handy, especially for designing images for scientific journal articles. I’ve decided to start …
The concept of ‘stasis’ has been a staple of science fiction for a long time. How else could you get your characters from point A to point B—light years apart—unless you invoke faster than light travel. Or what about the …
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TL;DR 5/5 stars, dark, action-packed, gut-wrenching The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city’s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival …
TL;DR 4/5 stars, intrigue, action, worth reading Way back, in the land before time, I read some of Tad Williams’ traditional fantasy (it had a quest and a magic sword and a gawky boy and everything), so imagine my surprise …
TL;DR It’s pretty good, thought provoking, but I’d only give it 4/5 stars. From Amazon: Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work – …
TL;DR – It’s good, five stars, go and read it. “Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good.” —Patrick Rothfuss A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him …
Are you looking for free books? Then you’ve come to the right place. For quite a while now you’ve been able to get The UnConnected for free from this site (if you haven’t taken advantage of that offer yet, go here). …
What were they thinking? *Spoilers ahead* Anyone who has heard my interviews or seen me talk about Doctor Who before probably already knows that I’ve been less than impressed with Capaldi’s episodes. It’s not Capaldi’s fault so much as …
This last week I discovered a genre that I didn’t even know existed: LitRPG and I’ve pretty much had my nose buried in books ever since. It’s a hard premise to explain, and I think people would either be super …
I really should be more consistent with my reviews… Anyway, today I’m reviewing a book which is very popular at the moment; The Man in the High Castle. It’s set in America in the 1960’s, but in an alternate world where …