Monthly Archives: April 2022

This post follows on from Books Read in 2003, which I posted at the end of March. And for 2004 I read exactly one hundred books, down five from 2003’s total. This was the year in which I discovered Alexander … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #36:- VENISS UNDERGROUND Jeff Vandermeer This novel is set in a far distant future where the social order has largely broken down and mankind co-exists with specially bred artificial life forms, … Continue reading →

Now this looks interesting.

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #36:- DOCTOR MOOZE Panton di Villa Bluechrome pb, 156pp, £7.99 Okay, this is the blog, sort of, of yer Panton di Villa who is like, this incredibly cool kid, hanging out … Continue reading →

And so long, Lenny.

I’ve read more books by Michael Moorcock than any other writer*, some sixty volumes, at least one of which was an omnibus, and I have the Pyat books in a box somewhere waiting for a rainy fortnight. In no particular … Continue reading →

Two reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #16:- IN CONVERSATION: A WRITER’S PERSPECTIVE – VOLUME ONE: HORROR (British Fantasy Society hardback, 245pp, £15) began life as the pet project of writer James Cooper, but was then picked up by … Continue reading →

The latest from Robert Eggers:-

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #16:- Black Static’s former illustrator David Gentry provides the cover for THE BEAUTIFUL RED (Atomic Fez paperback, 237pp, £11.99), columnist Christopher Fowler writes the introduction and four of the stories were first … Continue reading →

A guy I used to work with thought that Cohen was a really depressing singer/songwriter, so when I lent him this album I enclosed a slip of paper with the phone number of the nearest Samaritans.