The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit, £7.99, out now) Bio-punk is an emergent subgenre in sci-fi, swapping the cyber in cyberpunk for genetics. Debut author Bacigalupi does a fantastic job of world building here, as well as bringing to life a set of very real, and flawed, characters all trying to survive in a […]
Hands up if you can remember Westwood Studio’s Dune II, what is widely considered as the first Real Time Strategy game that kick started the genre and the studio went on the become Kings of the RTS World with their following titles, Command and Conquer and Red Alert. This game somehow had found it’s way […]
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Machete (18) 2011. 105 mins approx. Directed by Ethan Maniquis & Robert Rodriguez, and written by Robert Rodriguez & Alvaro Rodriguez Starring: Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, and Robert De Niro Ok, let’s start with the good things: the original Grindhouse trailer for Machete was great, and really took advantage of Danny […]
WyrmeWeald: Bloodhoney by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (Published by Doubleday, released February 2012) I discovered this announcement just this minute (August 17th, 11.12pm) and I am excited. I’ve been waiting for the announcement of the second Wyrmeweald book since I finished the first, Returner’s Wealth (see my review). I simply cannot wait. This has […]
WyrmeWeald: Returner’s Wealth by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (Published by Doubleday, paperback £6.99, OUT NOW) From the creative team behind the excellent Edge Chronicles and Barnaby Grimes series comes the first in a new trilogy, WyrmeWeald: Returner’s Wealth. This is fantasy but not as you know it; set on a dustbowl planet, the style […]