Daily Archives: June 23, 2007

My kingdom for a comic strip

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Iain

The always interesting Book Slut has a really good article about reading comic strips in newspapers, something that too many people do not have the pleasure of doing. On my paperround, I used to read the Hagar strips one of … Continue reading →

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Back to the 70s – David Devereux’s Hunter’s Moon

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Iain

Hunter’s Moon is perhaps one of the most appalling books that I have read this year and the real annoyance was that I had been looking forward to it. I have a sweet spot for the anti-hero magician type wandering … Continue reading →

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Getting old gracefully? – Joe Haldeman’s Old Twentieth

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Iain

I’ve just read Old Twentieth by Joe Haldeman which is an interesting read. In the future, death has pretty much been banished but what replaces it? Whilst travelling through space, Jacob, a virtual reality engineer, is involved with an emergent … Continue reading →

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The language of genre

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Iain

Oxford University Press are not a publisher that one expects in the sf field (apart from the fine fantasy and sf anthologies) but the recently published Brave New Words is an odd book. Its a dictionary of science fiction terms … Continue reading →

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To Infinity and beyond…

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Iain

Solaris have published the Infinity Plus anthology, a bind up of the two PS publishing collections, and its another gem. I’m not going to go into detail in to each story as it has been a while since I read … Continue reading →

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