Beyond the Black River – The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 7 – Pt 2
Beyond the Black River The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 7 Edited by Paul Herman Part Two These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore The first two-thirds of this seventh volume contained two pretty naff Howard pieces — and one stone cold masterpiece in the shape of the title story. Unfortunately, since the remaining two consisted of an oddity and a run-of-the-mill...
Return to Lovecraft Country
Return to Lovecraft Country 15 Frightening Forays into the Lovecraftian Landscape An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 7 Hmmm… ‘Return to Lovecraft Country?’ I’m not quite sure that I’ve ever left it for long. Well, perhaps for as much as a year at a stretch. But forty-five years ago a boy of twelve walked through an angle that made no sense in the physics of this world and emerged onto a landscape where everything...
Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot
Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot “To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and metal, electricity and positrons. —- Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human-destroyed! But you haven’t worked with them, so you don’t know them. They’re a cleaner, better breed than we are.” Susan Calvin On the back cover of the edition I’m holding in my little claws –HarperVoyager 2013, since you ask – the blurb simply gives Asimov’s famous...
Blair Witch (2016)
Blair Witch (2016) This is a direct sequel to The Blair Witch Project, meaning that we’re skipping right past Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 – which is good for me since I didn’t see it. And since I thought the original was one of the most over rated things I’d ever laid eyes on, I would have been giving this one a miss as well, but for two things: Adam Wingarde was directing and Simon Barrett was doing the screenplay. This...
Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers So. That was Starship Troopers; and that is what all the fuss has been about. Now I can see why controversy has followed this science-fiction novel for so long. Is it fascist? Yes, I guess it is to a degree; but it argues its case quite well. Is it a celebration of the army and all things militaristic? Oh, most definitely. But even for someone like myself, who simply hates orders of...
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