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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]