World War Z was recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray, including RedBox and most digital services like VuDu. Based on the best-selling novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooks, the movie version follows Brad Pitt’s character, a United Nations employee tasked with finding the cure to the zombie […]
Book Review: A THOUSAND PERFECT THINGS by Kay Kenyon
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In her epic new work, A Thousand Perfect Things (Premier Digital Publishing), award-winning author Kay Kenyon creates an alternate 19th century earth ruled by the warring factions of scientific Anglica (England) and magical Bharata (India). The main protagonist is Astoria (Tori) Harding, a young woman who aspires to be a scientist in the mould of her […]
Netflix Pick: Ip Man
September 11, 2013 by 6 Comments
My brother is in town this week and recommended I watch Ip Man with him. I have seen the iconic cover on Netflix’s gallery, but stayed away because of how little patience I have for foreign films, subtitled films, and martial arts films that for some reason have developed a stigma of slow starts with […]
Graphic Novel Review: RUBICON by Long, Capel, Stilla and McQuarrie
September 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Graphic novels are wonderful constructs. They allow us to tell stories unlike any other and impart an understanding to readers that simple text on the page is in capable of. That’s not to knock the beauty of text, but the Seven Samurai retold as Navy SEALS, as awesome as it sounds, just wouldn’t work in […]
Book Review: THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY by Mur Lafferty
September 3, 2013 by 1 Comment
All Zoe Norris wants is a job and a chance to start over again. When she stumbles across an opportunity as a travel book editor in New York City, she thinks she’s found the perfect chance. The only problem? She’s human. Her boss is a vampire, her favorite co-worker is a water sprite, an incubus […]
Book Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares by James Lovegrove
August 28, 2013 by 4 Comments
Sherlock Holmes has seen numerous iterations across the spectrum of media, some good some bad. James Lovegrove, the author of Age of Odin, is the latest author to put his pen to the test in Sherlock Holmes – The Stuff of Nightmares, and he excels. Lovegrove returns Holmes to his roots of 19th century London with […]
Book Review: CELEBROMANCY, by Michael R. Underwood
August 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Ree Reyes is no ordinary geek. Not only is she a geekomancer–someone able to tap into the energy of fandom and perform magic, but she’s also a burgeoning screenwriter having her first screenplay turned into a pilot called Awakenings. However, when Ree discovers the production’s star, Jane Konrad, is the target of magical mayhem, she […]
Book Review: SEA CHANGE by S.M. Wheeler
August 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Lilly is the unhappy child of two powerful but dysfunctional parents who despise each other. The girl, however, finds solace at the ocean, where she meets and befriends an eloquent, intelligent sea monster, a kraken, whom she names Octavius. Octavius wants to hear stories all the time and, in exchange, he teaches the girl about […]
Short Story Review: The Storyteller’s Wife by Eugie Foster
August 9, 2013 by 2 Comments
The idea of children being stolen by fairies and some lifeless changeling being substituted to fool the parents into believing it real has been around in fairytales for centuries. But the substitution of an adult is less common. In the case of Eugie Foster’s Urban Fantasy short story, The Storyteller’s Wife, the supposed suicide of […]
Book Review: PARASITE by Mira Grant
August 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The zombie apocalypse will be televised, but it will not be the rising of the undead according to Mira Grant, author of Feed, Blackout & Deadline. In her latest book, Parasite, and the first of the new Parasitology trilogy, zombies are the result of a reasonable scientific explanation and not magic. The problem is the […]
