Doctor Who, Daleks: The Mutation of Time – reviewed
Review by Stephen Theaker Jean Marsh and Peter Purves take it in turns to read chapters of this, the second of John Peel’s novelisations of The Daleks’ Master [...]
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The Collected Connoisseur – reviewed
Review by Stephen Theaker In his introduction Mark Valentine describes the inspiration for these 23 stories as those of Prince Zaleski, Mr Dyson and Carnacki. I’ve only [...]
The Cult of Osiris, Andy McDermott – reviewed
Review by Stephen Theaker Nina Wilde, all-action archaeologist, has put away her pony-tail following the pyrrhic conclusion of a previous adventure and languishes in [...]
The Big God Network, J.C. McGowan – reviewed
Review by Anthony G. Williams A USA split into the right-wing Christian fundamentalist New America and several smaller states such as Pacifica and New England. This is the [...]
Twisthorn Bellow by Rhys Hughes – reviewed!
Review by Stephen Theaker As its subtitle explains, Twisthorn Bellow concerns itself with “the unusual escapades of a self-exploding golem with a twisted horn and [...]
The Hundred-Towered City, Garry Kilworth – reviewed by Gary Couzens
Review by Gary Couzens Jack, Annie and Davey are the children of Roger, who has invented a time machine. Briefly, time runs in a spiral and travel backwards and forwards is [...]
May Contain Traces of Magic, Tom Holt – reviewed
Review by Pauline Morgan Humour is a very difficult thing to write as different people laugh at different things. Most people though, will find this novel a light, enjoyable [...]
Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors – reviewed
Review by Stephen Theaker Brian Hayles, read by Frazer Hines BBC Audio, 4xCD, approx. 4 hrs The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria land on a frozen Earth, where humanity makes [...]
Lenore: Wedgies, by Roman Dirge – reviewed
Review by Paul W. Smith The simplicity of Dirge’s drawings play mischievously with these childlike stories that inhabit the darker recesses of a playfully warped [...]
Crack’d Pot Trail by Steven Erikson – reviewed
Review by Stephen Theaker Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, the Nehemoth, ‘quarry of ten thousand stone-eyed hunters’, travel the Crack’d Pot Trail across the [...]