Author of Muslim Fantasy & Host of the Fantasy & Faith Podcast
It is true that the smartphone has become the ubiquitous cybernetic extension of the human being. As the HTC advert says, its never more than an arms-length away from your body. It is not physically attached to you, but sometimes it takes physical amputation to get it away from you. It is your means of staying […]
Read More Multi-tasking in the Age of the SmartphoneDo you every get the feeling that you may be doing too much? Writing is the one thing that I would say I love doing the most, and yet of late I haven’t been putting fingers to moulded plastic keys as much as I should. I’m working on a new novel and the plot has […]
Read More It’s All Too Much?Containment is hard science fiction. In fact some may even say that its more science than fiction. Much of this novel reads like a science textbook from the future. The cover features a futuristic city scape which has little to do with the actual storyline. The story follows young Arik’s coming of age and induction […]
Read More Review: ContainmentSixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sixty-One Nails is urban fantasy in the vein of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Its set in London and follows the journey of an office worker into the realisation that the Fey are real and coexist alongside humanity. His adventure begins after he experiences a heart […]
Read More Review: Mike Shevdon’s Sixty-One NailsIf you’re thinking that I’m not really the Halloween type, then you would be right. The origins of Halloween lie in the creepy pre-Christianity past of Britain, though its also celebrated as All-Hallows Eve. But then I’m a Muslim, so it doesn’t make a difference to me one way or another (…I’m gonna find ya, […]
Read More Its the Season to be Spooky, Fa La La La Argh!The Vanguard Society by J. Eathen Satterwhite My rating: 2 of 5 stars The cover of The Vanguard Society is a black and white affair. A woman’s face peers out, drawn in black ink and effecting a kind of negative image of a women standing in the dark with a little light spilling over her […]
Read More Review: J Eathen Satterwhite’s Vanguard SocietyThe Shadowed Path follows the attempts of a young man to put a traumatic experience behind him and get some answers as to why things went so badly wrong for him and his companions 4 years ago. The book is heroic fantasy in the vein of the late and great David Gemmell. The book cover […]
Read More Review: Simon Stone’s The Shadowed PathNekropolis: A Matt Richter Novel by Tim Waggoner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nekroplis is a strange concoction of genres. Its a detective story set in a fantasy background with every describable (and some indescribable)monster from horror featured in it. Its perhaps why it took Nekroplis so long to be taken up by a […]
Read More Review: Tim Waggoner’s NekropolisThis is an interesting book. I bought it because David Farland recommended it in one of his Daily Kicks. I started reading it initially but couldn’t get into, then left for about half a year. Then a few days ago, I picked it up and started reading it again and was pleasantly surprised. Its like a blend […]
Read More Review: The Black God’s War: A NovellaFacebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Authonomy, Google+, Smashwords. This is a list of my current online social networks. Now most of these networks are inter-connected in some shape or form. I write a blog post and it appears on Goodreads. I put up a link on my Facebook page and its copied on to my Twitter account, […]
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