Books

The SNES isn’t just the greatest Nintendo console of all-time: it’s the home of a truly impressive collection of classic games, underrated gems, and, for our purposes today, a shocking number of games that never got the sequel they deserved. While you can usually list the business reasons why certain games don’t get sequels, that
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Contains major spoilers for A Quiet Place Part II. John Krasinski’s follow up to his breakout horror hit A Quiet Place was due to hit cinemas in March last year, before COVID hit and took out the cinemas with it. But now A Quiet Place Part II has finally arrived on the big screen and
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Roll up, roll up for an exclusive event! We’re partnering up with our friends over at Gollancz to celebrate the upcoming release of This Fragile Earth by hosting a free virtual evening with author Susannah Wise in conversation with Love and Other Thought Experiments author Sophie Ward on 24 June. Not only that but signed
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This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers. It’s the most far-out moment in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead: when Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer) finds the skeletons of another squad of “graverobbers” just outside the casino vault, Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick) asks the young safecracker an ominous question: “Is it another team or is it us,
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NFT marketplace Terra Virtua has launched the world’s first NFT-only graphic novel – Bloodlines from award-winning British artist Nick Percival (Judge Dredd and Slaine). The work will be released in conjunction with a new graphic novel reader app to allow collectors to immerse themselves in the novel’s post-apocalyptic world, and engage with exclusive content. Check
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The following contains THE FLASH spoilers through Season 7, Episode 11. Good news, The Flash fans: Our long national nightmare that was the Forces of Nature storyline is finally over. Granted, “Family Matters, Part 2” has many of the same problems as last week’s installment – the nonsensical sibling connection between the various Forces of
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James Kennedy’s Dare To Know is mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted – for a price. Our narrator is the most talented salesman and death predictor at the prestigious company Dare to Know. Though he’s mastered the art of death, the rest
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This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 9 “Save people to win.” “Win to save people.” My Hero Academia’s current season has done an excellent job in highlighting many of the series’ more neglected characters, but it’s also functioned as an opportunity to demonstrate how much Class A’s most
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Science fiction, speculative fiction, in fact all the sub-genres herein, is a fantastic place to really express emotions, social commentary, thoughts, idealisms, violence, human rights (and lack of) and so on… But writing with these in mind there’s a sense of trepidation and hesitancy. Whether this is a thread of the community in which we
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Set in a dystopian future where the world is no longer governed and those who prosper are callous and violent, Anna follows the story of a woman who has been captured and is owned by a man named Will. She calls herself Anna, though that is not her real name but a persona she has invented
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This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers. There’s a moment during Army of the Dead when a team led by former mercenary Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), on a mission to recover a casino owner’s cash from a vault in ruined, zombie-ravaged Las Vegas, comes upon the remains of a previous team seemingly sent into
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Always wondered about the historical originals of your favourite mythical creature? You’re not the only one! Genre hero Guillermo del Toro recently said that The Folio Society’s latest release Mythical Beasts “is not only a beautifully designed book but a magnificent idea-igniter for storytellers interested in fantastic lore. Erudite and mesmerizing”. Written by leading experts
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The Hunger Games is the first book in a trilogy of dystopian YA novels by Suzanne Collins, that were adapted into a four-film series, with the third book being split into two films. The story follows Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who volunteers for the annual battle royale, the Hunger Games, after her sister Prim’s name
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When Disney+ released the full poster for its latest Marvel series Loki, many fans had a similar reaction. “Yeah it’s nice to see Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, and Wunmi Mosaku, but…tell me more about that smiling orange clock in the bottom left.” Computer, enhance. Well, fellow Internet weirdos, ask and ye shall receive. Marvel released
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I’ve always been obsessed with werewolves as the most human of all monsters – not undead like vampires or zombies, and not always transformed into something different, werewolves are like me – a person with an illness outside of their control that manifests periodically. Not all of my favourite werewolves make this connection explicit, but
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To celebrate the upcoming release of Laure Eve’s Blackheart Knights we are giving away a copy of the fantasy novel to three lucky winners! But first, here is the intriguing synopsis for the book… Power always wins. Imagine Camelot but in Gotham: a city where knights are the celebrities of the day, riding on motorbikes
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This The Handmaid’s Tale review contains spoilers. There’s really no such thing as understatement on this season of The Handmaid’s Tale, is there? This episode, and the ones preceding it, have played out at a deafeningly high emotional volume. Every speech is emphatic, every exchange is urgent and tear-filled, every decision is literally life or death. It’s a
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