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Category Archives: retro book reviews
The Statement of Randolph Carter: The Complete Lovecraft #14
This is one of those tales you come across in Lovecraft’s mythos that leaves you with no more than a half-hearted um… It’s just simple and straightforward without any real depth to it. A run of the mill tale that … Continue reading
Posted in Lovecraft, mythos, retro book reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged #amwriting, cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft
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Oswald Bastable: The Original Steampunk Trilogy
H.G.Wells and Jules Verne share the honour of being amongst the father’s Science Fiction, and retrospectively the fathers of Steampunk. There is little doubt the Verne and Wells influence on Steampunk is huge, though their tales are set in a … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, book reviews, Hannibal Smyth, novels, opinion, pointless things of wonderfulness, reads, retro book reviews, sci-fi, steampunk
Tagged amreading, bookblog, cogwheels, Hannibal Smyth, steampunk
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The Street: The Complete Lovecraft#12
The first time I read this story I was left feeling a little uneasy, and not sure why. If I had read it in the past, it escapes my memory, so it was one I came to fresh for this … Continue reading
The White Ship: The Complete Lovecraft#11
Mankind seeks utopia, or arguably it should, it often seeks its own destruction instead, and when it finds utopia, it fails to recognise it for what it is and seeks something else. This is the core idea behind H.P.Lovecrafts ‘The … Continue reading
Posted in dreamlands, Lovecraft, pointless things of wonderfulness, retro book reviews
Tagged #amwriting, cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft
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War of The Worlds: H G Wells: Retro Book Review#2
War of the Worlds is a science fiction classic by anyone’s standards. It has inspired comics, movies, more movies, other novels, TV shows like the classic 1970’s series The Tripods, yet more movies, most recently starring Tom Cruise. A mass … Continue reading
Posted in books, Passing Place, pointless things of wonderfulness, retro book reviews, writes
Tagged #amwriting, steampunk
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The Transition of Juan Romero: the complete Lovecraft #10
‘The Transition of Juan Romero‘ is a strange fish as far as Lovecraft’s fiction goes. Like ‘Old Bugs‘ it was first published posthumously by Arkham House as Lovecraft himself disavowed the story, and refused to allow it to be published in his … Continue reading
20000 Leagues under the Sea: Jules Verne: Retro Book Review
If you want to know about a classic, and any book that survives in print long enough generally gets considered a classic, there are plenty of dry Wikipedia entries you could read. No one reviews them in the way they … Continue reading
Posted in book reviews, pointless things of wonderfulness, retro book reviews, steampunk
Tagged #nautalus, steampunk
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Old Bugs: The Complete Lovecraft #9
Lovecraft tells the tale of ancient star beings lurking under the oceans. Insect intelligence watching human from the outer planets. Strange monsters in the darkness waiting only to pray upon those who are foolish enough to call attention to their … Continue reading
Memory: The complete Lovecraft#8
There are short stories, and there are shorter stories, and then there are micro stories. ‘Memory’ is the shortest of all H.P.Lovecraft tales, a flash fiction masterpiece before the term flash fiction had even been conceived. It is also among one of the most beautiful, insightful and chilling…. Continue reading
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