Fan of CBS’ Sherlock remake? Elementary stars Jonny Lee Miller as a contemporary Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Doctor Joan Watson. Sherlock’s had to relocate to Manhattan and Joan has been asigned to him as a sober living companion. She’s supposed to be keeping him steady but instead the pair end up on the […]
Competition: Johnny Alucard
Kim Newman was way ahead of the curve when it came to re-inventing historical stories with supernatural and fictional characters woven in. His vampire series imagines what it would be like if Dracula had succeeded in taking over England and if Jack the Ripper was a vampire hunter. Johnny Alucard is the fourth book in […]
Competition: Queen of the Dark Things
He’s been compared to Neil Gaiman but has his own, strangely chummy, way with words and in Queen of the Dark Things C. Robert Cargill takes us on an adventure not just to Australia but to the world of the faerie. Following on from Dreams and Shadows, Queen of the Dark Things is set half […]
Competition: Metal Hurlant – Resurgence
Based on the popular sci-fi comic book the Metal Hurlant Resurgence live action sci-fi anthology has a cast that includes James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings), Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight) and many faces geeks with taste will recognise. There’s six different adventures in this anthology, […]
Competition: SF Masterworks collection
The SF Masterworks series is so important it has its own Wikipedia page. Back in 1999 Millennium started to pick the very best of sci-fi from the 1950s for reprint. It’s now run by Victor Gollancz and continues on its mission. The original list was described as amazing by Ian M Banks. In this competition […]
Free rules for Warmachine and Hordes – now $400 bonus prize
There are some games you pay for and then there are those freebies that actually give you the chance to win more loot. Privateer Press have moved firmly into the latter camp. Right now (and up to September 3, at least) both Warmachine and Hordes are free to download from Privateer’s site. You can grab […]
Batman: Arkham Knight competiton
Batman fan? The Batman: Arkham Knight computer game certainly is. In the prequel novel The Riddler’s Gambit you get to explore Gotham City and see what happened after the dramatic ending of the game Batman: Arkham City. The Riddler has stepped into fill the power void in the shady underworld and successfully enlists many of […]
Competition: Soldiers of the Damned giveaway
Are you 18 or older? Do you want to see what happens when a group of war-weary German soldiers are ordered to retrieve an ancient relic from a strange forest behind enemy lines? Yes? You’re exactly the type of horror fan who might be interested in this competition to win one of 5 copies of Soldiers […]
Competition: The Splintered Gods
The Splintered Gods is the latest book from Stephen Deas in the Memory of Flames series. The Dragon Queen is being forced to wage war on her new master’s rivals and the magic necklace that traps her ensures she cannot escape. Trapped in another body, Berren – the Bloody Judge – is on the hunt […]
Competition: Win The Seventh Miss Hatfield
One way to describe The Seventh Miss Hatfield is as a cross between Pride and Prejudice with Doctor Who. We’re dealing with a young girl who grows up very quickly in strange circumstances and then becomes something of a time traveler. The “Seventh” in the title relates not to timelord regenerating but because our hero […]
