Month: June 2021

Explosive and cerebral, Plurality is the new action-packed whodunnit cyber-thriller from director Aozaru Shiao and we can exclusively reveal its artwork (above) and trailer.  Check it out here… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#65279;</span> After a bizarre bus accident, Ming Ze awakens from a coma to discover that his mind
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Due to be released next January, Tom Beckerlegge’s The Carnival of Ash is a lyrical literary fantasy about a city of poets and librarians and we are exclusively revealing the cover! The Carnival of Ash is Becklerlegge’s first book for adults: “The Carnival of Ash is a ten-year labour of love, frustration and outright stubbornness
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Tor Books & Den of Geek Present: TorCon 2021 In partnership with Tor Books, we are thrilled to announce the return of TorCon, a virtual convention launched in 2020 to bring the entertainment and excitement of live book conventions into the virtual space. From Thursday, June 10 through Sunday, June 13, Tor Books, Forge Books,
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If you haven’t already heard, NFT marketplace Terra Virtua has just launched the world’s first NFT-only graphic novel – Bloodlines from Nick Percival (Judge Dredd and Slaine). The series follows the journey of four characters as they fight to survive in a disorientating and bleak world, which sees human emotions take on physical forms such as fierce
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This article contains SUPERMAN & LOIS episode 8 spoilers. Superman & Lois has done so many things right in its first season, using familiar comics characters to explore an uncharted onscreen corner of the Superman mythos, focusing on the struggles of small town businesses in an increasingly corporate America, and embracing bold and risky storytelling decisions like
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There’s no doubt that Danny Pudi’s character Abed was a favorite of Community fans everywhere. Despite a lack of social skills explained through an unspoken understanding that the character was on the autism spectrum, Abed’s charm sprung from his ability to relate reality to pop culture narratives that were easier for him to comprehend. However,
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Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 episode 8: Testimony. With June out of Gilead, the premise of The Handmaid’s Tale has shifted. A drama about resistance and endurance has become a drama about recovery and survivorhood, and those new themes are being treated with characteristic complexity. Over the years, this show could be accused of lacking
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Barrie Condon’s The Tethered God follows Khafre, a mighty Egyptian God-King, who died four and a half thousand years ago. When he died he expected an eternity in paradise but instead, he found himself in modern-day Cairo, trapped inside the lowliest of creatures, a police dog who earns its living by sniffing out bombs. Yet,
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This article contains Cruella spoilers. Disney’s latest live-actioner, Cruella, is a prequel to 101 Dalmatians which sees Emma Stone’s budding fashion designer Estella begin to grow into her villainous alter-ego Cruella de Vil. By the end of the film ,she hasn’t yet reached the depths of Disney’s puppy-skinning diva – there’s time yet – but
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Author: Stark Holborn Publisher: Titan Books Released: Out now Ten Low follows the eponymous character as she atones for a series of undisclosed sins, earned from her time as a soldier of the ‘Free Limits’ when they resisted the unstoppable empire of ‘The Accord’. Finding herself on the losing side of a bloody rebellion, The
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From space opera to near future speculation, science fiction brings us futures beautiful and frightening. Take a look at our top picks for the best new science fiction books to read in June 2021 … Star Eater by Kirsten Hall Type: NovelPublisher: TordotcomRelease date: June 22 Den of Geek says: Perhaps Octavia Butler started it,
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Fantasy novels provide escape, new perspectives, and some of the most inventive and diverse work happening in genre spaces today. Take a look at what’s coming up in June 2021 … The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Type: NovelPublisher: TordotcomRelease date: June 1 Den of Geek says: One of the buzziest fantasy releases
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Today’s young adult books bring romance, adventure and social commentary. Take a look at our best bets for what to read this June. A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow Type: NovelPublisher: Tor TeenRelease date: June 1 Den of Geek says: Morrow’s A Song Below Water was a fun, fierce mermaid story on the borders
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Despite what Marvel might have you believe, not all film franchises are perfectly serialized. Take, for example, another kind of cinematic superhero: James Bond a.k.a. 007. The MI6 spy created by Ian Fleming and brought to screen by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli is timeless in the most literal sense of the world. Since
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It’s almost cruel to talk about the best RPGs ever made. Not only is it the kind of topic that inspires especially heated debates, but even a shortlist of the greatest RPGs ever may leave you desperately trying to find the time to somehow play them all. Then again, the thing that separates the best
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Warning: contains Inside No. 9 spoilers. Right at the start, Bev told us she was celebrating a birthday. The significance of that indefinite article passed us by until she protested in the final minutes, “I never said it were my birthday.” Bev was celebrating on behalf of Ryan, the baby she’d snatched from his pram two decades ago as
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