Month: November 2017
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Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Conspiracies imbue the innocuous with meaning. Secrets have to be maintained, their tracks covered. Conspirators obsess over the details which must be covered up; conspiracy theorists obsess over ... -
The Silent Invasion by James Bradley
We tend to think of apocalypse as a fast-moving thing—a meteor strike, a nuclear war, a zombie horde multiplying at speed and devouring all before it. There’s value ... -
Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror by Erin Harrington
I’ve been a horror film fan for decades now, happily watching every sort of horror I can get my hands on, and if you watch enough of it ... -
Hurricane Heels by Isabel Yap
The first time I saw Sailor Moon, I was thirteen. I was sleeping over at my friend Janine’s house where a poster of Sailor Moon hung above her ... -
Want by Cindy Pon
As someone who grew up reading science fiction, it was a weird and vertiginous moment when the future caught up with William Gibson’s novels and he started writing ... -
Beauty, Glory, Thrift by Alison Tam
I read Alison Tam’s Beauty, Glory, Thrift in an aisle seat on the flight home to Tokyo. This was a mistake, given that I started crying and caused two ... -
Creatures of Will and Temper, by Molly Tanzer
Molly Tanzer’s Creatures of Will and Temper may take inspiration and cues from Oscar Wilde’s classic The Picture of Dorian Gray, but Tanzer gives us more than just ... -
Brief history of iOS – all the things that you should know
For the iPhone’s 10th anniversary, Mobile Shop team has decided to prepare for you a brief list of every iOS version Apple has ever made. Some of them ... -
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
To say that The Beautiful Ones is different from all Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s works does a disservice to her: everything she has done is remarkably and admirably different. She is a ... -
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
The category of “serial middle grade or young adult novel that was posted online for free but then gets traditionally published” is still rather small, but it’s produced ...
