Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
This is a story about a high school girl that wants to graduate with good results and get her best-friend in the the same University as her. The only difference between this girl and any other high school girl is that she lives in our future when everything is hidden behind layers of augmented reality. […]
Read More Book Review: Gamers by Thomas CarpenterBlood and Fire is the new Xan Marcelles short story and the second collaboration between authors Carrie Clevenger and Nerine Dorman. Xan is a self-proclaimed dude who happens to be a member of Crooked Fang, a rock band who play out of the Pale Rider, a back country tavern in Colarado. He also is a […]
Read More Book Review: Blood and Fire by Carrie Clevenger and Nerine DormanThe WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]
Read More 2011 in reviewSo . . . 2011 . . . What a year, right? The year started with funding cuts and job losses in the public and third sector, with only the Royal Wedding to distract us and lighten the mood. Natural disasters seem to have become a permanent annual fixture. News of a single, white, male […]
Read More Christmas MessageRender by Elizabeth C. Mock My rating: 3 of 5 stars Render is the second book in Elizabeth C. Mock’s Children of Men series. It continues the story of Faela, Kade and Jair, the three Hands of Lior, agents of change who are chosen whenever a great need arises in the land. One of their […]
Read More Review: Elizabeth C Mock’s RenderShatter by Elizabeth C. Mock My rating: 3 of 5 stars Shatter is the first book in the trilogy, The Children of Man. When magic of Light was misused by the sorcerers, in order to safeguard it from being abused again, magic was split into different colours and each colour became championed by colleges and […]
Read More Review: Elizabeth C Mock’s ShatterIt 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 Nails