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#NerdReads | Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine

#NerdReads | Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine

  • By Will Harrison
  • September 15, 2014
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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 [...]

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#NerdReads | Philip K Dick | Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

#NerdReads | Philip K Dick | Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

  • By Will Harrison
  • September 08, 2014
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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 [...]

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#NerdReads | Rule 34 | Charles Stross

#NerdReads | Rule 34 | Charles Stross

  • By Will Harrison
  • September 01, 2014
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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 [...]

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Joss Whedon | Geek King Of The Universe | Review

Joss Whedon | Geek King Of The Universe | Review

  • By Guest Contributor
  • July 23, 2014
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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 [...]

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#NerdReads | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury

#NerdReads | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury

  • By Will Harrison
  • May 14, 2014
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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 [...]

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#NerdReads | John Scalzi | Redshirts

#NerdReads | John Scalzi | Redshirts

  • By Will Harrison
  • May 07, 2014
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When the crew of the Intrepid realise the high rate of casualties they do whatever they can to avoid deadly away missions. For many years choice of reading material, other than comics, has been almost exclusively made up of non-fiction. It's only in [...]

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William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

  • By Will Harrison
  • December 05, 2013
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Verily, A New Hope! - Ian Doescher takes on the writing persona of history's finest bard to place onto page the epic story that is Star Wars - A New Hope as if written by William Shakespeare. Fans of the film [...]

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