Tag Archives | Sci-Fi

The Book Of Forks

By Rob Davis Publisher: Self Made Hero ISBN: 9781910593738 This is the third, and final, part of a series that started with The Motherless Oven, and continued in The Can Opener’s Daughter. If you’ve not read them, then here’s not the place to start, but perhaps I can at least persuade you why you should […]

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IAN 2. Lessons Of Darkness

By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183727 IAN now appears to be accepted with the team, although that still makes for some awkward moments as perceptions and assumptions are challenged. The team is visiting LA, and no sooner do they arrive than a massive civil disturbance erupts. Fortuitously, the team can be scrambled in […]

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IAN 1. An Electric Monkey

By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183710 Artificial Intelligence seems to be rarely away from the news, and is certainly an increasingly common plot device across books, movies, TV, and comics. Have you noticed how to often it takes the form of an emerging sinister threat? This is natural, and perhaps inevitable. Could our […]

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Valerian: Shingouzlooz Inc

By Lupano & Lauffray Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184014 There’s an obvious conundrum presented when creators end their involvement in a project, either by someone’s choice or the via the difficult-to-negotiate-around issue of dying. The current Asterix books are a good example of this. They’re in the spirit of the old tales, but the latter of […]

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Return To Aldebaran: Episode 1

By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184618 Now here’s a very pleasant surprise indeed. A new Aldebaran series by Leo! It’s the fifth series in the saga to date and does the nifty trick of tying together the various plot threads and characters into a unified story.  Kim has been nominated by the alien species as […]

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Distant Worlds: Episode 3

By Leo & Icar Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183796 Paul’s been rescued from his dilemma in the pearl beds and is even offered a job as a result, but it’s the search for his father that still occupies his mind. Declining the job he’s now stuck with little money, and to make matters worse a run […]

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