Books

Jan 022013
 
The Vengeance Path: Preview

    The new year begins with a bit of snap n’ crackle, with the long-awaited launch of The Vengeance Path, the debut novel of Geekzine Editor-in-Chief Andy Jamieson. The Vengeance Path is the first in The Chronicles of Edenos, a Fantasy-Steampunk adventure series, set far into the future on an alien planet called Edenos. Humans […]

Dec 102012
 
Anne Rice Q & A - December 2012

In one of the biggest coups the geekzine has experienced, we are extremely pleased to feature an interview recently conducted with Anne Rice, author of Interview With The Vampire, and many other novels, including most recently, The Wolf Gift. Ms Rice was kind enough to answer Editor-in-Chief Andy Jamieson’s questions, as part of the promotion […]

Nov 202012
 
Horus Heresy Collector's Hardbacks

The Horus Heresy series,  published by the Black Library (Games Workshop’s burgeoning publishing arm) has gone from strength to strength since the release of the first book, Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, back in 2006. For those who don’t know, the HH series is set in the 31st Millenium, when the Imperium of Mankind, led […]

Nov 142012
 
Is 'Elementary' actually a Sherlock Holmes sequel?

When CBS announced its plan to produce a modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, the casting of Lucy Liu as a female Watson and the shift to a New York setting weren’t (despite the deluge of online negativity) particularly big problems for me.  As details about the upcoming series emerged, the question uppermost in my mind […]

Nov 132012
 
Adapting to Zombies: The First Trailer for 'World War Z'

Next summer’s zombie blockbuster looks epic in scope, but will it do justice to its celebrated source material? After its original December release date was pushed back to June 2013 following two script re-writes and a reported seven weeks of re-shoots, internet doomsayers immediately began to predict that World War Z would be a cinematic […]

Oct 302012
 
Alternative Halloween Horror

It wouldn’t be Halloween without horror movies, but if you’ve already been spooked by classics like Halloween and The Exorcist and shocked by newer fayre like Paranormal Activity and [Rec], there are plenty of underappreciated horror gems out there waiting to be discovered by intrepid film fans on a dark October night.  This Halloween, Geekzine […]