Editor’s Introduction

Aug 072011
 

Welcome to this shiny new website, the Geekzine, which is the logical & inevitable evolution of the Edinburgh Geekzine, a fanzine-newsletter dedicated to the weird and wonderful worlds of SF, Fantasy, Horror, Graphic Novels & Comics, Manga, and more (hopefully you’ve heard of it).

The website will primarily focus on the printed word, but with generous space given over to movies and tv shows, computer and videogames, board games, role-playing games, etc. You get the idea.

My name is Andy Jamieson and I am the editor and creator of the Edinburgh Geekzine, which started life a few years back as a side-project of a humble store newsletter for a certain big-chain bookshop (beginning with W). I worked hard establishing a regular newsletter every month for all the stores in Edinburgh of this particular chain, but became increasingly frustrated with having to write about books I just wasn’t interested in.

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Sir Terry Pratchett Q & A – Part One (Autumn 2010)

Aug 232011
 
Sir Terry Pratchett Q & A - Part One (Autumn 2010)

Terry Practhett portrait by Darren McNaney, freelance illustrator, animator & digital effects artist. Geekzine Editor Andy Jamieson interviewed Sir Terry Pratchett by phone in September 2010, on the eve of the promotional tour for ‘I Shall Wear Midnight’: This has to go down as probably one of the happiest, most nerve-wracking moments of my life, [...]

Wyrmeweald book 2: Bloodhoney by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Mar 232012
 
Wyrmeweald book 2: Bloodhoney by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

  WyrmeWeald: Bloodhoney by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (Doubleday, HB, £14.99 – OUT NOW) The second book in this trilogy, and the follow-up to 2010′s WyrmeWeald: Returner’s Wealth, Bloodhoney is, in short, an astounding achievement. When you consider that the market for this series is the lucrative Young Adult / Teen sector, it is [...]

The Lost Guardian: Fumito Ueda and The Last Guardian

Mar 212012
 
The Lost Guardian: Fumito Ueda and The Last Guardian

Hmm, will we ever see this game released?   The Lost Guardian A single white feather floats in the darkness and alights next to a round stone structure which appears to be a well with a rusted chain disappearing into its depths. A blackbird lands on the structure, dwarfed by the seemingly huge white feather, [...]

Mars is not a four-letter word: Why Disney’s “John Carter” is worth your time and money

Mar 192012
 
Mars is not a four-letter word: Why Disney's "John Carter" is worth your time and money

John Carter (12A) Released in the UK 9th March 2012 Running time: 132 mins approx. John Carter is not a science fiction film; it’s important to keep this in mind.  The book upon which it is based, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, is not a work of science fiction either.  Indeed, any attempt [...]

Dan Abnett Q & A (Embedded, Know No Fear) March 2012

Mar 152012
 
Dan Abnett Q & A (Embedded, Know No Fear) March 2012

Dan Abnett is an author whose name is synonymous with Science-Fiction and future war – be it 2000AD, Gaunt’s Ghosts, the Horus Heresy, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Doctor Who, Torchwood… And he keeps going. His most recent book is Know No Fear (out now from the Black Library in paperback, £7.99), the nineteenth book in the ongoing [...]

Discworld: Anhk-Morpork – The Board Game

Mar 132012
 
Discworld: Anhk-Morpork - The Board Game

Discworld: Anhk-Morpork – the Board Game (available from most book shops, price varies) “Welcome to Ankh-Morpork, the largest, smelliest, and most ‘interesting’ city on Discworld. The city’s patrician, Lord Vetinari, has disappeared, and the citizens are calling out for firm leadership. Will one of the noble families take control of the city, or will the people welcome the [...]

Before Prometheus: What Peter Weyland’s TED talk tells us about the Alien-ating nature of progress

Mar 132012
 
Before Prometheus: What Peter Weyland's TED talk tells us about the Alien-ating nature of progress

  Guy Pearce as the enigmatic Peter Weyland. What exactly is he up to?   and www.weylandindustries.com   With the Summer blockbuster season fast approaching, the latest piece of Hollywood viral marketing to light up the blogs and social networks of the great webtropolis is this 3-minute video, which acts as a teaser of sorts [...]

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