Annihilation – the first of a trilogy – is the tale of an expedition into the mysterious “Area X” . Something happened to Area X a while back – never explained, very vague. Exactly what or when and what’s wrong with “Area X” is never explained – at least not in this book. Perhaps in the other parts of the trilogy… Eleven expeditions have gone in to investigate Area X and …really no one has come back out or if they have, they […]
A fresh and surprisingly warm and human take on the zombie genre.
Zombies are everywhere. They’ve broken their way through the barricaded world of cult obsession and entered popular culture. Even Brad Pitt fights them. We’re practically suffering an outbreak of shambling clones and glassy-eyed cash-ins, and so it’s hard not to immediately bash anything new on the head with a cricket bat and ignore it. But every so often, something new will come along and spin it in a fresher direction. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Zombie Survival Guide, Handling the Undead, Warm Bodies, Patient […]
Eve Dallas hunts possible vampires and serial killers
Eternity in Death – 3 stars Creation in Death – 4.5 stars Creation in Death is book 25 in the In Death series (and the novella precedes it, counting as 24.5) and this is possibly not the place you want to start, as a whole load of character development comes before. However, as the books are a bit like episodes in a crime procedural show, picking up with this one would be like watching a random episode of a show a few seasons in. I don’t think there’s any major […]
Finally a Book and Movie That are Both Awesome
Tom Cruise’s latest sci-fi flick, Edge of Tomorrow, is not terrible. In fact, it is quite excellent and you should all go see it. The movie is based on a Japanese light novel, and although the premises of both overlap, each diverges to form two separate equally enjoyable works. All You Need Is Kill tells the story of Keiji Kiriya, a private in the United Defense Force, who is thrown into battle against invading aliens called the Mimics, who have ravaged the earth for 20 […]
I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
I’ve tagged “The Leftovers” as science fiction, although I’m not sure it was intended as such. The book opens with a great conceit: Over 2% of the Earth’s population has disappeared. Just poof, gone! Some think it was the Rapture; most are simply stunned and confused by what has happened. The novel focuses on the residents of a quaint suburbia called Mapleton and how they attempt to move on several years after the great exodus. I absolutely loved the premise. What would you do if […]
I’m a teenager and my world is ending. But seriously.
Not one to often pick up a young adult novel, I was intrigued by this month’s book club choice. Much like the protagonists, I had to fiercely struggle my way through Grasshopper Jungle, but I’m glad that I did. This book is, well, weird. The narrative choices are interesting and for the first half of the read for me, annoying and distracting. Our narrator is sixteen-year-old Austin and he prides himself on being a historian, with volumes written about the nothingness that happens in Ealing, […]
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