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 [...]

A Guide to the Discworld Series and Terry Pratchett’s Writing

You might have seen this lens before. Unlikely, as it is rarely visited, but it’s possible. If you did, you probably back-pedaled out of it as fast as you could, before the endlessly loading modules finished devouring your browser and moved on to your music collection. Fear no more. For I have tamed it with [...]

District 9

If I had not left my glasses at home when I went to the video shop I wouldn’t have picked up District 9 at all. There I was, looking for one more selection to make up the five in number which means a cheaper rate than one or two. At the last moment I grabbed [...]

Beowulf and Grendel

Beowulf and Grendel takes you into a world of fable and myth, a world where men, larger than life, stride along the border of light and dark, beset by evil dreams and dark vengeance. On the edge of waking and dreaming is the Hero, holding back the monsters of the night. It’s a tribal tale [...]

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