Thermal

One of the highlights of the holiday was the boy’s discovery of the excellent Astrosaurs books by Steve Cole. We had wandered into a bookshop in Oban which had a special offer on 3 for 2 so we all got a book each, and the boys were taken in by the picture of space-suit clad [...]

Edward has been a regular visitor to my blogs for a while now, and you’re probably aware that he has a blog of his own, The Urban Iconoclast. What you may not know is that Edward is an author of several books, and he has asked me to review one of them; Free Spirit.
Free Spirit  [...]

Ten actually, in this list of the Ten worst sentences from third rate Sci-Fi.
I particularly like this one which is number 9:
Frank watched the mushroom cloud spread across the horizon with annoyance, knowing that this meant more weeks of disruption to regular cross-Manhattan train service while the debris was cleared.
But number one does take some [...]

Well, you’re in luck then. Although Envirochecks website is only for the UK, the KGB mapped most of the world, so yours will be out there somewhere.
Between 1938 and 1990, the Russian security forces mapped most of the large cities in Britain, to a very high level of detail. As the site says:
It is a [...]

You can hardly fail to be an author with a name like that really can you? I mention him because his latest book has just come out, and as soon as I get some money for the er, ’sponsored posts’, I’ll be off to Amazon to get it.
Conn’s last series was an epic 4 novel [...]

What a fantastic idea: On Demand Books
According to the article where I found out about this, OnDemand Books (ODB? - wasn’t he in the Wu-Tang Clan? Perhaps they could have thought this through better) are looking to install these machines in libraries and other places. You find the book you want, select page quality options [...]

This is a quite marvelous idea: Thumb Thing

I do a lot of reading in bed, and sometimes the ache in my hand is worse than having used a mouse for 8 hours. Another gadget to add to the list of things I didn’t know I needed.

J-Walk has linked to the top 50 books on Amazon this year, and in common with him, I have read precisely zero. Can you do any better?
My favourite book of the year is Shield Of Thunder by the late, great David Gemmell. He died in July, only 58, before it was published. It’s a big [...]

Sound advice. Following on from my awful album covers post; behold! Terrible book covers.

What are they doing? Does it hurt? And how happy does that Alien look? Want more? Bad Book Covers.

Bilbo Jackson

This sucks. The Hobbit was perhaps my favourite childhood book, and given the great job Jackson & his team did with the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, There is surely no-one else that can do justice to the project. It would appear that its down to the studio trying to force Jacksons hand over [...]