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Book Review – The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

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Tony Black reviews The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter… The final chapter in The Long Earth series, The Long Cosmos shall resonate in memory for being perhaps the final piece of published writing from the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett, who sadly died in 2015. The series, co-authored with hard science writer Stephen […]

Book Review – The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels

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Ben Rayner reviews The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels… The Commodore 64 was essentially my first console experience. Watching and waiting as those tapes worked their painfully slow magic before dinner was what made most of my evenings as a child that little bit more special. Games like Turrican, Bubble Bobble, Double Dragon and […]

Game of Thrones: Who is Bran’s Cold Handed Saviour?

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Tony Black on Bran’s Cold Handed saviour… MAJOR spoilers for Game of Thrones – Season 6 Episode 6 – ‘Blood of My Blood’. So hands up who thought Bran Stark was dead meat after the traumatic end of ‘The Door’? With poor old Hodor fulfilling his manifest destiny, his all-seeing Raven mentor cut to ribbons, […]

George R.R. Martin releases an excerpt from The Winds of Winter

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A Song of Ice & Fire author George R.R. Martin has given fans a taste of what’s in store in his long-awaited novel The Winds of Winter by releasing a chapter via his website (which you can read it here).  The chapter is being touted as a dig at the television show – which has deviated somewhat […]

J.K. Rowling to attend special charity performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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Some good news for Harry Potter fans who didn’t manage to snap up some Cursed Child theatre tickets. J. K. Rowling has announced a special charity performance of her new play – which is set in the Wizarding World some years after the end of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s adventures in The Deathly Hallows – […]

Book Review – Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong

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Michelle Herbert reviews Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong… David Wong is mainly known for his first novel, John Dies at the End, and although there are similarities in his writing style, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits is a more coherent story set in a whole new world, where zany events happen and […]

Star Wars: Episode VIII director Rian Johnson contributed story ideas and elements to Star Wars: Bloodline

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Following her acclaimed novel Star Wars: Lost Stars, author Claudia Gray returns to the galaxy far, far away next month with the release of Star Wars: Bloodline, the latest offering from Lucasfilm and Del Rey. If you needed another reason to pick up Bloodline, an article over on the official Star Wars site has revealed that Star […]

Book Review – Squirm & Learn: Death By Shakespeare

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Kieran Fisher reviews Squirm & Learn: Death By Shakespeare… Without writers like William Shakespeare, the comic book medium probably wouldn’t exist.  He’s a cornerstone of literature, whether you like his work or not, which you might not if it was forced on you at school. However, his work has either directly or indirectly inspired most storytellers […]