The highs and lows of an internet celebrity's journey from lonely child to CCO of a multi million dollar startup. Any card carrying nerd or geek (you choose how you self identify) probably knows who Felicia Day is. Either from her [...]
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Book Review | Seeking Perfection: The Unofficial Guide to Tremors
Tremors is a cult film that is loved the world over and this year celebrates a 25th anniversary. A new book by Jonathan Melville, ‘Seeking Perfection’, explores the behind the scenes story. Writers Brent Maddock and S. S. Wilson had their [...]
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Book Review: We Don’t Need Roads
In the early 1980’s two Bobs, Zemeckis and Gale, set out to make a film about time travel. Little did they know of the cultural impact this film would have thirty years later. 2015 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the classic [...]
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Book Review | The Martian – Andy Weir
Due to a tragic accident, a single NASA astronaut is left behind on the planet Mars. A rescue mission will take four years to reach him but he only has supplies for thirty days. Recently whilst occupying my hobby of being a [...]
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Review | The Great Zoo of China
Back in 1979 the Chinese accidentally stumbled upon what would become the greatest scientific discovery of our time. Now they are ready to share this discovery of the world in the largest zoo ever constructed. Its inhabitants…dragons! C.J. Cameron is an [...]
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Review | Ready Player One
The creator of a virtual online universe known as OASIS has passed away but not before he hid a prize so great everyone is looking for it. The first clue has stumped everyone and five years on no one is [...]
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Judge Dredd | The Mega Collection
Judge Dredd, the future of law enforcement, returns in this new collectible set of hardcover books in the UK. But is the Mega collection worthy of its title? My first ever article for The Unheard Nerd was a short piece about [...]
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Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes!
Batman dressed in pink!? The Joker has green skin!? Wolverine only has two claws? Superman is hurt by bullets? The leader of the Gobots is incredibly smug!? From the intro you may be wondering what the hell I'm talking about and [...]
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Battlestar Galactica Vault | Review
From start to finish, everything you need to know about Battlestar Galactica in full colour. Compiled by Paul Ruditis and published by the same folk that brought us the wonderful Sci-Fi Chronicles comes Battlestar Galactica Vault, The Complete History Of The Series, 1978-2012. [...]
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#NerdReads | Sci-Fi Chronicles
Hours and hours of reading over years to come, Sci-Fi Chronicles is the bible of science fiction. It boggles my mind to even contemplate how you go about compiling a comprehensive guide to science fiction starting as far back as 1818 and spanning [...]
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