Altered Carbon TV Show
One minute I didn’t even know Altered Carbon was being made into a TV show and the next, I am shitting myself with excitement that it is almost here. Altered … Read More
Category: Books
New Year, New Scifi book reading frenzy
Happy New Year! 2018 sounds pretty futuristic. Next year is original Blade Runner’s year, we are already further in the future than Marty McFly has ever been, and we have … Read More
Mortal Engines trailer
Peter Jackson is working on a movie adaptation of Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve’s steampunk/ dieselpunk/ whatever-punk books about cities wandering around a post-apocalyptic world attacking each other. It looks bloody … Read More
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky won the Arthur C Clarke award last year and deservedly so. It’s bloody great and the kind of ideas-based science fiction that Clarke used … Read More
Visual guide to the Expanse
I have made no secret about the fact that I think the Expanse is bloody great. I am currently in that painful period between both Expanse books and TV series. … Read More
Time related short stories
I plugged my superb travel book over at The Word of Ward the other day, so I thought I might as well plug my Science Fiction short story collection here. The … Read More
Game of Thrones Seasons 1 to 6 recap
Game of Thrones season 7 is back on air tomorrow night on HBO and will be downloaded by most of the planet an hour later. (Not me, I hasten to … Read More
Into the Unknown – Exhibition at the Barbican
I saw ‘Into the Unknown – A Journey through science fiction’ a couple of weeks ago. If you like science fiction and are in London, I highly recommend it. It … Read More
Cooperworld
I am thinking of developing the story of Cooperworld into a novel. It can go places. If I do, it will probably be quite different in tone but the essential … Read More
The Dark Tower official trailer
I wrote relatively recently about the Dark Tower book and how good it was. As I said in my review, the Gunslinger was damned enjoyable and I wanted to read … Read More