Gary Dalkin, Author at Amazing Stories

Film/Televison February 27, 2014

Review – The Fictional Man by Al Ewing (Solaris, 2013)

The Fictional Man, published by UK imprint Solaris, is based on an impossible conceit, one of those high concept movie-friendly ideas where one aspect of reality is altered from our world but things continue just the same. Absurd, but depending on how well it’s done we buy into it for the duration. Here it is generally very well done. Al Ewing is a breathtakingly clever writer and his conceit is that human cloning was perfected decades ago but then outlawed because everyone is entitled to their own unique identity.

Historical Fiction February 20, 2014

Review – Inversions by Iain M. Banks

A review of Bank’s Inversion.

Review February 13, 2014

Review: City at the End of Time by Greg Bear

Gary Dalkin rounds up novels that feature cities at the end of time.

Review February 6, 2014

Review: The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell

An updated review of a seminal and influential anthology – The Space Opera Renaissance

Fiction January 16, 2014

Review: The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Prisoner of Heaven is actually what you get when a stand-alone novel sells 15 million copies and the author decides to write sequels without a worthwhile new story to tell.

Film/Televison January 9, 2014

The Thirteenth Tale (BBC TV film) – Review

A review of the BBC production of Diane Setterfield’s novel of the same name

Film/Televison January 2, 2014

The Time of the Doctor / Death Comes to Pemberley – Review

Gary Dalkin reviews an unusual Jenna Louise Coleman set of performances – The Time of the Doctor back-to-back (ion the BBC) with Death Comes To Pemberley

Film/Televison December 26, 2013

Cloud Atlas, Skyfall and the McDonaldization of Hollywood

Gary Dalkin reviews Cloud Atlas and Skyfall and talks about the homogenization of American cinema.

Film/Televison December 19, 2013

Quatermass II – revisited

Quatermass II is a rare sequel that is an improvement over the original in every respect.

Film/Televison December 12, 2013

The Quatermass Xperiment – Revisited

In this post I’ll look at The Quatermass Xperiment, and next week consider the follow-up, Quatermass 2.

Fiction December 5, 2013

Review – Night Film by Marisha Pessl

Gary Dalkin reviews a novel that wants to be – ought to be – a movie

Fandom November 28, 2013

The Week of the Doctor

Just in case you’ve missed out on all the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary happenings….

Doris Lessing, Cologne literature festival 2006

Fiction November 18, 2013

Obituary – Doris Lessing

Dorris Lessing

Fiction November 14, 2013

Too Long After – A Time Limit On Sequels & Prequels?

How long after is too long? Returning to a great original is fraught with difficulties at any time, but the more time goes by, the more the problems compound.

Fantasy October 31, 2013

Review – The Man Who Haunted Himself (Blu-Ray/DVD)

The Man Who Haunted Himself is, as the title suggests, both a ghost and a doppelgänger story

Fiction October 17, 2013

Book Review – Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Imaginings Volume: 6 – Feast and Famine is a collection of ten short stories by the British writer Adrian Tchaikovsky, best known for the nine-volume (and counting) fantasy series, Shadows of the Apt, published by Tor.

Film/Televison October 3, 2013

Movie Review: Grabbers (Blu-Ray)

Grabbers has been dismissed in some quarters for not doing anything original. Well most films don’t do anything original, and Grabbers does achieve a couple of things I’ve never seen before.

Fantasy September 26, 2013

Review – Mr Nobody (the best film you’ve never heard of)

The full 158 minute director’s cut is simply one of the best films I have ever seen.

Fandom September 19, 2013

Review – Searching for Ray Bradbury by Steven Paul Leiva

A loving tribute to the memory of one of the most important figures both in the history of our genres and in American popular culture and the literature of the 20th century.

Fantasy September 12, 2013

Saving Doctor Who – Episode 2: Arcs, Horror and Screwdrivers

Every generation of children has the right to be scared senseless and feel a powerful urge to watch from behind the sofa.

Fantasy September 5, 2013

Saving Doctor Who – Episode 1: The Cliffhanger

Could Doctor Who use some changes?

Anime/Comics August 29, 2013

Review – Anime by Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc

Anime is not intended as a definitive guide, but as wide ranging introduction to the field. Even so, seasoned anime watchers will find the book valuable for the opinions expressed

Fantasy August 22, 2013

It’s All My Fault – An Apology

Another summer of cinematic wilderness is drawing to a close and I owe you all a big apology. Why? Because I am responsible for the terrible state of mainstream American cinema today.

Fiction August 15, 2013

Review – Falling Over by James Everington

Falling Over is a book about perception, about characters who come to doubt their sense of the reality of the world, whose perceptions are doubled, who extrapolate alternative realities or timelines or encounter, or imagine they encounter, doppelgängers.

Film/Televison August 5, 2013

Review – The Fictional Man by Al Ewing (Solaris, 2013)

Review – Inversions by Iain M. Banks

Review: City at the End of Time by Greg Bear

Review: The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell

Review: The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Thirteenth Tale (BBC TV film) – Review

The Time of the Doctor / Death Comes to Pemberley – Review

Quatermass II – revisited

The Quatermass Xperiment – Revisited

Review – Night Film by Marisha Pessl

The Week of the Doctor

Obituary – Doris Lessing

Too Long After – A Time Limit On Sequels & Prequels?

Review – The Man Who Haunted Himself (Blu-Ray/DVD)

Book Review – Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Movie Review: Grabbers (Blu-Ray)

Saving Doctor Who – Episode 2: Arcs, Horror and Screwdrivers

Saving Doctor Who – Episode 1: The Cliffhanger

Review – Anime by Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc

It’s All My Fault – An Apology

Review – Falling Over by James Everington

The Name of the Doctor is… Peter

Revisiting Richard C. Meredith’s Timeliner Trilogy

Jurassic Park is 20 – What Went Wrong?

Ender’s Game Over

Stardust: The Ruby Castle Stories, by Nina Allan

Joyland by Stephen King – review

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