Blood Pact by Dan Abnett (Black Library, 2011, PB, £7.99) This fine book is the thirteenth book in the Gaunt’s Ghosts series, and it’s a reflection of Dan Abnett’s great talent that he’s managed to keep this one as exciting and enjoyable as the very first. The basic plot follows Gaunt as he’s chased round […]
Nemesis by James Swallow (Black Library, 2010, PB, £7.99) This superb book (the thirteenth in the series) is to the Horus Heresy what John Le Carré is to spy fiction. While most of the previous books have been in your-face-war, the author’s second book in the series (after the gripping fourth book in the HH series, […]
The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (Black Library, 2010, PB £7.99) The Black Library’s hottest new author delivers a sucker punch on behalf of the consistently amazing Horus Heresy series. For existing fans this is a key addition to the overall story arc (being book fourteen) but crucially, due to its pre-heresy setting, is also […]
The Dead Of Winter by Chris Priestley (published by Bloomsbury, PB £6.99 – out October 2011) Edgar Allan Poe. M.R. James. Wilkie Collins. Now we can add Chris Priestley to that list, as an esteemed storyteller of ghostly delights. Following on from his Tales of Terror trilogy (of which this book is a great companion […]
Weaveworld by Clive Barker (HarperVoyager, £7.99, out now) Stunning. Incredible. I’d go on but you get the idea. This is quite simply one of the best books I think I have ever read. Fanboy gushing aside, you don’t get to read many of those, I think it’s safe to agree. This title is over twenty […]
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, […]