This is the second book I’ve reviewed by Marcus Alexander Hart. The first was One Must Kill Another, which was a great read and genuinely creeped me out. But that was serious horror, and this […]
Mur Lafferty is no stranger to KODT. Aside from her column Geek Fu Action Grip column back in the day, I reviewed another novel of hers, the Hugo-nominated Six Wakes. But while Six Wakes is […]
Back in issue #277, I reviewed Drew Wagar’s Shadeward Saga. That series took place in the far future on a tidally locked world that orbited a red dwarf star, its inhabitants the descendants of a […]
What if Beatrix Potter had illustrated a serious medieval fantasy series? That’s basically the first impression I got of the graphic novel series Mouse Guard, written and illustrated by David Peterson. Much like my earlier […]
Graphic novels can be a tricky beast to review. While some are dialogue and exposition heavy, reading like a novel with pictures, others rely more on visual storytelling. This means you can sweep over a […]
I’m not a huge fan of kaiju (literally “strange beast” in Japanese—aka Godzilla stuff) for reasons that will become clear later, but I am a huge fan of this book. The Kaiju Preservation Society is […]
A lot’s going to be happening in the next couple of months, so I thought I’d let you know what’s up!
Novels set in roleplaying worlds are a tricky thing. On the one hand, you want to be true to the game world, but sometimes the game mechanics get in the way when applied to a […]
It’s interesting to think about how the mystery genre has adapted over time. Think about how many changes have occurred in mystery solving between Sherlock Holmes and today. Forensics, fingerprints, DNA, facial recognition tech, and, […]
Journey to the Centre of the Earth is the kind of story that would be hard to tell today, not without sounding like a conspiracy nut. It begins in 1863 in Germany at the home […]
More than once I’ve reviewed books that have been adapted to the big or small screen, and that’s not a coincidence. I’m just as likely to watch an adaptation of a book I’ve read as […]
If you woke up in the body of a robot, having died years before, who are you really? You’re not the deceased, not really. At best, you’re a simulation. Yet you have their memories and […]
Everyone knows the name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle because of Sherlock Holmes… and that annoyed him to no end. Heck, it’s part of the reason he bumped off Holmes in the first place. He […]
Way back in issue #206, I reviewed Stephen King’s book On Writing. It was perhaps the best crash course on writing I’ve ever read, and the single most influential book on my journey as a […]
I feel like I should hand in my nerd card for not having read this before now, though I did watch the David Lynch (er… I mean, Alan Smithee) movie. I just never got around […]
I don’t often deal with sequels because, well, I only get to do this once a month. But I do visit them when I think it gives me something to say about storytelling. Here’s the […]
In anime, one of the prevalent genres right now is isekai, which translates as “different world.” It basically revolves around the adventures of someone who is transported to a world very much not like our […]
“Yahtzee” Croshaw is best known for his video game reviews series Zero Punctuation (so named because of the way it’s spoken, edited, and sped up so that you have a hard time knowing where, if […]
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