The Echo. What starts as a tale of space exploration quickly turns into a dark science fiction thriller with horror undertones, as a crew from Earth explores a strange anomaly in space. Book 2 of 12 | Subsequent to finishing 'The [...]
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Review | Console Wars – Blake J. Harris
Blake J. Harris takes a prominently one-sided look at the 1990s 16 Bit console war that played out between Sega and Nintendo. Book 1 of 12 | Console Wars, or to give the book it's full title, 'Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo [...]
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Book Review | Movie Geek: The Den of Geek Guide to the Movieverse
Movie lovers, film nerds, you NEED this book, Movie Geek: The Den of Geek Guide to the Movieverse If you’re a movie buff like me, then the Den of Geek website should definitely be in your bookmark list. Existing in both [...]
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Review | Artemis – Andy Weir
Andy Weir moves closer to Earth with Artemis, the follow up to his phenomenally successful sci-fi novel The Martian. Sabotage, smuggling and petty crime on The Moon. In 2011 Andy Weir self-published his first novel under his own name. Three years [...]
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Review | Provenance – Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie's fourth sci-fi novel 'Provenance' is a crime thriller set in the same universe as her hugely successful Imperial Radch trilogy. Few authors achieve in a lifetime the same level of success as Ann Leckie did with her debut novel [...]
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Review | The Year Of The Geek – James Clarke
For us, Geek Culture isn't a hobby, it's a lifestyle. It's not something we dip in and out of, we live and breathe it. We're not alone. James Clarke has compiled 'The Year of the Geek' for people just like [...]
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Classic Review | Neuromancer – William Gibson
Neuromancer is a book that was so far ahead of it's time that you wonder if author William Gibson sold his soul for a glimpse of the future. We're in classic cyberpunk territory with William Gibson's Neuromancer. Published in 1984, this [...]
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Review | Armada – Ernest Cline
With his breakthrough novel 'Ready Player One' about to hit the big screen as a Steven Spielberg directed movie adaptation, I felt it was about time I checked out the Ernest Cline's follow up, Armada. Whilst Ready Player One is an [...]
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COMPETITION CLOSED | WIN | Blueprint For A Battlestar Books
Our friends at Quarto have provided three copies of 'Blueprint for a Battlestar' for us to give away. One each for three lucky readers. The book published through the Aurum Press imprint offers 'Serious scientific explanations behind sci-fi's greatest inventions' and [...]
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Tim Burton – The Iconic Filmmaker And His Work
Tim Burton has been one of the most remarkable and unique filmmakers of the last 30 years. Film critic and journalist Ian Nathan guides us through Burton's incredible career in this beautifully presented book. If there's one thing that the folks [...]
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