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Category Archives: books
A Rust Moon Rises
May I just state clearly and concisely for the record, I for one welcome our lizard god overlords, after all they will probably be an improvement of the lizards we have in charge at the moment… Continue reading
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A Slight Case of Over Geeking
Forbidden Planet, The little store on Denmark Street, Continue reading
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Evolving Esqwith’s
Tentacles and why they are the best of things Continue reading
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Nice Safe Cosy Fiction Involving No Moral Ambiguity At All…
Shelley Adina is one of my favourite writers for a reason. I read her cosy fiction for a reason, the reason is that it is never quite as cosy as it seems. The good guys are not always entirely good. The bad guys are not always entirely bad, but merely misguided or driven by not unreasonable agenda’s. There are wonderful shades of grey, delicately hidden in behind all that nice safe cosy.
Hiding in plain sight like venetian assassins, waiting to catch you unawares. Continue reading
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Blyton and Lovecraft
“What’s the weirdest thing you have discovered today mark?”
Why, I am glad you asked… Continue reading
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Oh what convoluted webs we do weave
Main characters are bad enough, but the incidental characters that hang around the edges get more often than not have their own lives that morph and change as they go from a one chapter, one scene, body with a plot point nailed to it, to someone with a complete back story and who has had their own weird adventures of stage… Continue reading
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Cosy dragons and haunted beds
Now, to be fair, while I may read a lot of old dead white men, they are far from the only things I read. Some genre’s however I read less than others, not really for any major reason, I just don’t really seek them out. However on occasion a different subgenre crosses my path and for one reason or another I feel compelled to read them.
As is often the case these books are not written by old middle class white men, the authors are all alive as well, which makes a nice change. Continue reading
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Lucifer Redux
Magic, mayhem and impeccable manners in a Victorian London where magic is real Continue reading
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Cover Stories
‘Don’t judge a book by the cover’ as the old wisdom goes, unfortunately, however, in the real world everyone does. There is going to be some harsh unforgiving honesty with myself in this post, but sometimes that is required Continue reading
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The Creation of Strange Worlds
Did I really want to delve back into the mind of Howard Philips Lovecraft? Continue reading
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