On The Road With Kerouac, Cassady + Cthulhu – Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas Book Review
A review of NIck Mamatas’ Move Underground: it’s about time we gave Nick a bit of attention!
A review of NIck Mamatas’ Move Underground: it’s about time we gave Nick a bit of attention!
Review of Michael J. Martinez’s debut novel, The Daedalus Incident, and the alternate history plot line.
Review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone with an eye towards the hero’s journey.
Review of Las peripecias inéditas de Teofilus Jones by Fedosy Santaella.
Thursday Next, the plucky female lead character of The Eyre Affair, is a literary detective in an alternate 1985 England.
Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand Small Beer Press 2012 There’s a phrase used by some in Maine, where Elizabeth Hand lives part of the year, to describe those who aren’t Mainers: they are “from […]
Every family, every tribe, every cultural group has its own myths. We use stories, legends, folk tales, and even parables as means of understanding why things are the way they are, and of teaching why […]
Horror and alternate history are difficult genres to mash up. You just don’t see them together very often and despite my firm belief in the adaptability of alternate history, it is rare when you see […]
I’m glad I started with The Games by Ted Kosmatka as my first foray into science horror. I don’t think I could pick a better book that seamlessly melded horror and SF tropes. The year is 2044 and […]
My final (for now) look into SF detectives brings me to the classic SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Most people know of this novel as the basis of Ridley Scott’s […]
Alright we are back with my coverage on SF detectives and we return with the classic SF/mystery novel, written by the grand-daddy of SF himself, The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. This first novel in […]
We interrupt your regularly scheduled coverage on SF detectives to bring you this… As a kid, I used to love watching the 1939 film Wizard of Oz. My parents had recorded it on VHS so […]
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