After the explosive and emotional climax of the third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, creators Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill might have been expected to take a break from the elaborate work of crossover fiction they’ve been weaving for the last fourteen years. But it seems that continuing to explore the storytelling possibilities […]
The second collected volume of Grant Morrison’s Batman Incorporated is due be released in May, and will also rather confusingly be titled “Volume 1”. The reason for this sequential anomaly is DC’s new shift in company-wide continuity, dubbed “The New 52”. As far as the company is concerned, all series set in the main DC […]
Bedlam is the latest novel from Christopher Brookmyre, who you may know for his delicious, dark, funny crime writing, or his gothic horror / Doom 3 re-enactment ‘Pandaemonium’. I’m going to get right to the point: as somebody who has played more than enough computer games in his time, I can’t recommend this enough. […]
Not many authors would name a science fiction novel after a fictional piece of classical music and none that I can think of would do it as well as Iain M. Banks. The Hydrogen Sonata is Banks’ tenth novel set within his Culture universe and it continues the tradition of one of the great modern […]
Under Judgement: The Case of Dredd 3D vs. Judge Dredd Pitting the recent Dredd 3D against the 90s flop Judge Dredd seems unfair, like allowing an F-22 Raptor to go into battle against a Sopwith Camel. One is a high-tech, modern creation with generations of technological development over its rival. The other is made up […]
The Hydrogen Sonata, the new Culture novel by Iain M. Banks, is out in early October. He is one of the world’s foremost science-fiction writers as well as a prominent fiction writer (as Iain Banks). Mr Banks took time out from his busy schedule to answer my questions…. Andy Jamieson: What inspired your new […]