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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Famed as a science-fiction author, Ray Bradbury's 'homebound' novel draws heavily on his own childhood with a horror twist. Based loosely on Bradbury's hometown of Waukegan and his childhood adventures in the 1920s the author borrows actual events and names, immersing them into [...]

A very different focus from the movie it inspired. During a much needed two weeks 'off grid' on the French coast I found ample time to work through a number of books. The chance to spend a prolonged period lost in [...]

A near future crime novel set in Scotland. Of the same ilk as Cory Doctorow (the two collaborated on the futuristic sci-fi novel The Rapture of the Nerds), Charles Stross is an English born author with degrees in pharmacy and computer [...]

A thorough re-telling of Whedon's career, but where's the Whedon in it? Joss Whedon is a very busy man: the creator of hours of classic television with the ground-breaking Buffy series, Angel, Dollhouse and Firefly, not to mention the writer, director [...]

There's a reason Ray Bradbury is such a celebrated author, and The Martian Chronicles are a great starting point to finding out why. Allow me to come clean from the off. I didn't know a great deal about Ray Bradbury before [...]