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Book Review – A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984

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Villordsutch reviews A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984…. There’s an increase in love for all things retrogaming emerging across the globe, and at the same time there is also appearing a large number of books chronicling the history of the machines and the games of the past.  Of course the greatest machine to […]

Book Review – Artemis by Andy Weir

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Ricky Church reviews Artemis by Andy Weir… Andy Weir gained a lot of attention with his debut novel The Martian, a science fiction tale that not only became a bestseller but a big blockbuster film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Now, Weir follows up his Martian success with Artemis. Weir’s latest is a fun and […]

Star Wars: Thrawn – Alliances cover artwork revealed

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Earlier this year, Lucasfilm and Del Rey Books published Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn’s return to the galaxy far, far away, which told the origin story of the fan-favourite Grand Admiral Thrawn. Next summer, Zahn is returning once again for a sequel, Star Wars: Thrawn – Alliances and Del Rey has now revealed the cover to the […]

Book Review – A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre

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Ricky Church reviews A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre… John le Carre has had a long career as one of the best spy thriller writers with stories like The Night Manager and The Constant Gardener, but he’s most famous for the creation of George Smiley from stories such as Call for the Dead and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier […]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea sequel Nemo Rising set for release in December

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Novelist and filmmaker C. Courtney Joyner (the Shotgun western series, Renny Harlin’s Prison) is set to release his new novel, the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea sequel Nemo Rising, this December courtesy of Tor Books. Sea monsters are sinking ships up and down the Atlantic Coast. Enraged that his navy is helpless against this onslaught and facing a […]

Titan to publish Predator: If It Bleeds anthology

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Titan Books has announced the upcoming release of Predator: If It Bleeds, a new anthology book edited by Hugo Award-nominated author Bryan Thomas, which features sixteen brand new, never before seen stories featuring the Predators throughout space and time. SEE ALSO: Order via Amazon US or Amazon UK Over the centuries, extraterrestrial hunters of the […]

Timothy Zahn-penned Star Wars: Thrawn sequel coming in 2018, Darth Vader will feature

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During yesterday’s Lucasfilm publishing panel at the New York Comic Con yesterday, fan favourite author Timothy Zahn is once again tackling Grand Admiral Thrawn with a sequel to this year’s Star Wars: Thrawn novel. Going by the working title of Thrawn: Alliances, the new book will see the Grand Admiral joined by another iconic Star […]

New Star Wars story explains Darth Vader’s “no disintegrations” line to Boba Fett

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For almost forty years, Star Wars fans have debated the meaning behind Darth Vader’s “no disintegrations” line to Boba Fett in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. Well, thanks to a story in the new anthology book Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View, we now have our in-canon answer – and […]