More than Human

First published in 1953, this most celebrated of Theodore Sturgeon’s works won the International Fantasy Award, and rightly so. It’s a true masterpiece of provocative storytelling. A group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover their combined powers renders them superhuman. The novel opens with a self-described and self-acknowledged idiot living the [...]

Ancient Evil is surprisingly good

You wouldn’t normally expect Ancient Evil, especially in upper case, to be rampaging through Alasaka. You might expect a small town similar to Northern Exposure, perhaps with some of the familiar faces from the television series, and you wouldn’t be surprised to see Elaine Miles. You get all that, in a light-hearted monster-versus-panicked people in [...]

Medieval Odyssey

This modest Australian fantasy stars Hamish McFarlane as a young 14th Century boy with acute psychic powers. During the period of the Black Death, Hamish believes that he can rescue his fellow villagers by leading them into an abandoned mine. The fugitives tunnel their way through the darkness and emerge on the other side–into a [...]