Monthly Archives: July 2012
Our figurehead is not what she seems: Kate Locke’s God Save the Queen
It would appear that, in these Steampunk tinged days, the Victorian world has become the new Medieval world. A fakery of sorts in which the current order is misplaced rather than overthrown and the world comes back to a sort … Continue reading
The end of a Century’s story: A review of Century 2009
League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century 2009 brings Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Century to an end, in true comics style, but blowing up the universe. Looking at recent runs, when a writer comes to the end of their turn in … Continue reading
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Crossing the rails in search of a quest – China Mieville’s Railsea
China Mieville’s latest novel, Railsea, is at once a return to strident form of his earlier novel tempered with the philosophical sides to his more recent work. He comes back to the Scar and perhaps Iron Council in his exploration … Continue reading
Burning brightly – Elizabeth Hand’s Radiant Days
Elizabeth Hand’s Radiant Days is a thematic follow on from her novella, Illyria. Starting in New York in 1978 and Paris in the 1870s, there is a palpable sense of fear and tension, almost as if the cities are waiting … Continue reading