Freda Warrington is a British author of vampire, fantasy and supernatural novels. Born in Leicester, Warrington has created such favourites as the Blackbird series, the Blood Wine series, Dark Cathedral series, The Jewelfire Trilogy and Aetherial Tales series. The British Fantasy Society have nominated four of her stories for Best Novel awards and Elfland took […]
Out of that world: A review of Ecko Rising
Ecko Rising starts off as a near future cyberpunk. We’re dealing with a dystopian society, evil corporations, the resistance and medical treatments that can make you believe you’re in a totally different world. The story genre-hops. It flicks to a totally different world. Is it real? Is it virtual reality? There are touches of the […]
Lurking in the shadows: The Art of Thief
Thief is a game where you sneak around. Thief is a game of atmosphere and to that extent it makes sense to have an accompanying hardback of art. The problem The Art of Thief faces is what to include? If it goes the “mythos” route that art books sometimes take and explores characters and story […]
Mech marvellous: A review of The Art of Titanfall
Getting Titanfall? It feels as if Microsoft has a lot resting on this game. It’s an Xbox One headliner and is coming out for PC and Xbox 360 too. Call of Duty never appealed to me but Titanfall does. Do giant fighting robots make that much of a difference? Apparently so. Titan Books was probably […]
Help or horror? A review of The Darwin Elevator
The back story for Jason M Hough’s The Darwin Elevator sounds like the background for a tempting sci-fi roleplaying game. That, of course, is a huge compliment from this reviewer. Humanity discovered the alien presence only when they built the space elevator. The colossal construct connects Earth from Darwin in Australia to an abandoned spaceship […]
From bar fights to RPGs: An interview with Damned author William C. Dietz
William C. Deitz is an American author who’s worked as a surgical technician, PR and marketing Director and in the Navy. Deitz has written Star Wars books, Halo novels including Halo: The Flood and has written the Legion of the Damned sci-fi series. This interview follows Geek Native’s review of the prequel Andromeda’s Fall and […]
The cannibal in the woods: A review of Grimm’s The Chopping Block
The Chopping Block is the second in the Grimm novels. Based on the TV show the story is set between the TV episodes “The Waking Dead” and “Goodnight, Sweet Grimm”. In other words; the grim is starting to ratchet up in Grimm. I was actually a little surprised at how gory The Chopping Block got […]
The Big Yellow mystery: A review of The Better Part of Valour
The Better Part of Valour is the sequel to Valour’s Choice in Tanya Huff’s Confederation Novel series. I really enjoyed Valour’s Choice and sure enough the opening book proves to be almost impossible. I didn’t enjoy sequel quite as much. A step or two down from the first book is still safely in the “good […]
Hope in the Legion of the Damned: A review of Andromeda’s Fall
Andromeda’s Fall is my first experience of a William C. Dietz Legion of the Damned novel. In fact, I took my prompt from the word “prequel” to go investigate the original series. There’s a tiny sliver of a summary on Wikipedia; When there’s no hope for the terminally ill or a condemned criminal they have […]
Competition: Win one of three new Grimm novels – The Chopping Block
A pile of bones hidden in a Portland forest leads to murder mystery for detectives Nick Burkhardt and Hank Griffin. These bones have been stripped of flesh, severed and their not animal. More skeletal discoveries make it clear; these bones were cooked before being buried. Nick, Hank and a local werewolf find themselves hunting a […]
