Celebrated sci-fi author China Miéville spoke about the “geekification of popular culture”, and his desire to build a counter-history of popular literature through the “books that don’t fit” at the World Writers’ Conference event, hosted by the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday. The event as a whole was rather directionless; despite acting as a […]
Geekzine UK founder, Andrew Jamieson, will be reading from and discussing his debut novel, The Vengeance Path, on Wednesday 14th August, at 5pm, alongside fellow debut author, Damien Love, who will be reading from his book, Like Clockwork. Both author’s works are eBooks, and the event is billed as ‘Future Books’ – expect discussion to […]
The Vengeance Path is an epic tale of war, politics and (of course) revenge that was released as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.co.uk at the beginning of July, by Edinburgh-based e-publisher Thistle In The Kiss. Since then it has been a regular presence in the Kindle top 100 Steampunk Bestseller list. Blending high fantasy with […]
Pacific Rim is a hugely enjoyable (if flawed) film which does a better job than Michael Bay of putting giant robots on the big screen, while at the same time paying homage to Japanese monster movies and manga/anime series like Neon Genesis Evangelion. Although dominated by the awesome spectacle of towering machine men waging war […]
Griff delves into a war-torn anthology of heresy and betrayal from the vaults of the Black Library…. There is an old saying that the Devil gets all the best songs. In the Grim Darkness of the 41st millennium, it is almost comforting to know that little will have changed: Chaos has some damned excellent stories, […]
Ryan casts a critical eye over a reissue of the sci-fi legend’s earlier work. The Bloodline Feud isn’t a ‘new’ new book from the unstoppable Mr. Stross, but I’d be a bit surprised if you’ve read it before. It was previously published in the UK as two separate books with fairly forgettable covers and titles […]