Confession time: I resisted and disdained this book at first because the first chapter and a smattering of other sections are in the second person. And I hate that. There’s nothing more irritating than wanting a narrative and getting an experiment–it’s as if the author is dangling a story just out of reach and is instead …
At this point, everyone is probably sick of “Let It Go,” resultant jokes about letting “let it go” go, and anything to do with animated Norse princesses or their sentient snow sidekicks. Which is fine, because even though this is based on the same myth, “The Snow Queen,” it’s nothing like Frozen. Well, aside from …
Untwine is the kind of book that must be read in installments. Not because it has Dickensian chapters; it actually flows so naturally from page to page, story to story, that it really should be read in one long afternoon. But at least for me, that was impossible. It was too heartbreaking. Giselle and Isabelle are …
I am a sucker for time travel stories. Maybe it has something to do with the immutable march of time we all must inevitably face, or maybe it’s just fun to dwell in the realm of “what if?” While Old Man Logan is set in the present day Marvel universe, this version of Logan has …
Hello Geeklies, and welcome to part two of the tabletop Star Wars GET HYPE GOT HYPE train! (I hope you got hype for Star Wars.) Make sure you check out part one (Star Wars: Armada) if you haven’t already seen it. In this installment, I’ll review Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Fantasy Flight’s tactical miniature combat board game. …
Everybody loves a good mystery. When Serial exploded into the public consciousness this time last year it did more than spark an interest in the intriguing murder case of Hae Min Lee. Serial gave birth to a new wave of podcasts that tell mysterious stories over a number of episodes, often in the style of …
I was never much afraid of the Corinthian. Oh, don’t get me wrong, he’s a good character. A great one. But mouths for eyes and a taste for eyeballs? It doesn’t really do it for me. Still, I have to admit to getting the delighted shivers–the kind you get sitting around a campfire telling ghost stories–when …
Christina Ladd: Area X Cross-contamination between various media was always inevitable. Books that read like movies–and now books that read like video games–were always going to happen, and I’m not sorry they did. But there’s always a special pleasure reserved for books that do what other media can’t, taking full advantage of not only a …
One of the blurbs on the back of A Borrowed Man describes the book as “Wolfean.” Meaning, that it was written by and is quintessentially representative of Gene Wolfe, one of our modern SFF masters. This is simultaneously a very silly and very true thing to say, because of course what he writes ought to be …
Monday night was a big night for a lot of people. There was a sportsball game (several in fact for different sports) and the new fall season episodes are in full blast; more importantly though? The world was introduced to the official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Teasers have been out there for a while …