Reviews and writing from the past but here for your viewing… should you be that way inclined. Varied in content and the like but an archive for perusal…
Haunting of Alaizabel Cray Like much of Scholastic Press’s output, it seems ostensibly marketed towards a teenage audience, but this is to deny the adult nature of the book. A ripping yarn with shedloads of good ideas, more than a touch of intrigue and a perfectly realised alternative London. At turns scary, exciting and fascinating….
McFarland & Co, 2000, 759pp, £157.10, ISBN: 0-7864-0740-9 The problem with reference books is that, no matter how much you put in them, you are always judged by what you leave out. With a tome this size (marginally smaller than a double-decker bus) you’d be forgiven for thinking that most omissions would be minor, but…
Max Brooks Reviewed by Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc Paperback 272 pages (September 24, 2004) Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd ISBN: 071563318X £8.99 Frequenters of discount bookshops will undoubtedly be familiar with the plethora of SAS/CIA/FBI/B&Q survival guides available – you know the thing: how to eat like a prince when stranded in…
HarperCollins 2005 460pp £6.99 ISBN 0-00-717907-3 Reviewed by Colin Odell and Mitch Le Blanc Right, paying attention? Suzuki Koji’s novel Ring was a global phenomena that, in the space of less than a decade has been made into three separate film versions (in Japan, Korea and US), a manga, two film sequels (Japan and US…
Titan Books, September 2001, 255pp, £18.99, ISBN 1-84023-325-7 You may notice that there’s something not quite right about the title of this book. Ah yes, the preferred term is “films”, not “movies”, when will people learn? But joking apart, The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made does exactly what it says on the cover and tells…
