Monthly Archives: September 2016

ITEM: Three months on and nothing much seems to have changed as a result of the Brexit vote. Various parties are insisting that we pull our fingers out and get on with it, and various other parties are mounting legal … Continue reading →

Two reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #51:- ASSORTED NIGHTMARES AND FANTASIES Midnight and Moonshine, the first collaboration I read between Australian writers Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter, had about it something of the mystical and mythopoeic, a … Continue reading →

Over a couple of nights I watched three films that play out like a Mexican version of Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy. El Mariachi (1992) This is the film that put director Robert Rodriguez on the map. Bad guy Azul breaks … Continue reading →

Have to say I wasn’t particularly impressed by the first Jack Reacher movie, but maybe this one will be better.

Reviews of three novellas published by DarkFuse that originally appeared in Black Static #51:- DARKFUSE NOVELLAS David Bernstein’s RELIC OF DEATH (DarkFuse eBook, 99pp, $2.99) opens with hitmen Sal and Bruno returning from a woodland body dump. When their car … Continue reading →

I was so taken with the experience of reading graphic novels during super hero month that I’ve decided to include a smattering of them in my literary diet for the future, though from now on we can cast the net … Continue reading →

Beautiful song.

Two reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #20:- Zombies are our monsters of the moment, with little sign of their popularity abating in the short term. The challenge for writers is to come up with something more interesting than … Continue reading →

Oh crap! The aliens have come calling again, and just before my birthday, which is really, really inconsiderate of them.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #20:- Anita Black, vampire hunter and licensed necromancer, is a woman with principles: she won’t raise just any old dead person, and she needs a good reason to exercise her necromantic powers. … Continue reading →