Believe it or not, but this is my first reread for what must closing on three years now. Back then I nearly didn’t do anything but crack open books that had proved their worth, but suddenly I discovered that there actually existed other (and more interesting!) books then the ones found in my local library. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Guillermo del Toro to Direct “The Hobbit”
Hell yeah!
This may even be better than having PJ direct it himself! Sweet, sweet news!
28 Weeks Later
I don’t like horror movies. They either scare the crap out of me or they take themselves too seriously, thus making them more like surreal comedy flicks. But for some reason I really like watching zombie films, even if also zombies have a great potential for comedy gold (i.e. “Shawn of the Dead”, “Planet [...]
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
“Godly good gods, is “Altered Carbon” as kick-ass as it seems? I’m only asking since it seems so very unlikely that anything actually can kick this amount of ass and not make the world implode with its sheer awesomeness. Please gods, if you can take the time out of your day to get back to [...]
Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe is widely known as the speculative genre’s high-brow alibi. Not even its most stubborn critics can find much to fault him with, and that’s why he’ll probably go down in history as one of his generations very finest authors. I’ve only read one book by him before (”The Wizard Knight”), but that’s of [...]
Sundry Items, 19/1-08
* I just discovered that Warren Ellis (the author of the appallingly brilliant novel, “Crooked Little Vein”) will be publishing a novel in the beginning of August. It’s called “Listener” and it’s supposedly a 304 pages long post-apocalyptic SF novel. Keyword: Warren Ellis is teh hawsome, and so should “Listener” be.
* The [...]
Deadwood, Season 1
Deadwood is… Ahem… Okay, well… I guess that… What I really mean to say is that…
“Deadwood” is f*cking brainsplode fantastic.
TV doesn’t get better than this twelve parter western drama, and if you haven’t watched it yet you will most likely be hunted down and tagged as an inferior human being. That may sound harsh, and [...]
Secret Agent: Amras Elensar. Code Name: “104″
So apparently I’ve become a reviewer for Aschehoug, a pretty big Norwegian publishing house. “How did you manage this splendid feat?”, I hear you ask with a trembling, yet avidly impressed voice. Well, truth be told, I didn’t actually manage it.
They just took a review of mine without asking and posted it on their agency [...]
Toll the Hounds UK Cover Art
(Initially posted by Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist)
It’s that time of year, folks. I think it was sometime around February or such like that we got to see the UK cover art for “Reaper’s Gale” by Steven Erikson, and this year we’re getting the new one in late January. I remember there being some discussion as to [...]
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
Having already read and assessed Jim Butcher’s “Harry Dresden” series and Charlie Huston’s “Joe Pitt” books, I decided that I might as well go for the trifecta as far urban fantasy is concerned and pick up a “Felix Castor” novel. Mike Carey is probably best known as a comic-author (”Lucifer”, “Hellblazer”), but in 2006 he [...]
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