Crowded Bookshelf: Expanding the universe
December is here, and amidst all the usual trappings of the holiday season comes the newest Star Wars movie, the first in 10 years and the first to be handled by the franchise’s new owner, Disney.
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Crowded Bookshelf: Digging up the past
Readers of my previous columns will know that I’m a fan of Warhammer 40,000, Games Workshop’s more popular science-fiction setting.
Crowded Bookshelf: The colours of Mars
With the recent evidence of water being discovered on Mars, it seemed like a good time to turn my attention to the red planet.
Crowded Bookshelf: The not-so-Grim Darkness
To talk about Ciaphas Cain, Sandy Mitchell’s questionably heroic commissar, I need to start by talking about Warhammer 40,000.
Crowded Bookshelf: Are you afraid of the Dark?
Barbara Hambly’s Darwath trilogy surprised me. I picked the books up secondhand, drawn mostly by Donato Giancolo’s wonderful cover art, which had a wizard in it.
Crowded Bookshelf: The mysterious lives of robots
I’m a fan of mystery stories. I’ve read over a hundred of them by now, and amongst the ones that stuck best in my mind are those penned by Isaac Asimov, featuring Detective Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw.
Crowded Bookshelf: Vampires, werewolves, and a grumpy wizard
Harry Dresden is a wizard, but unlike a lot of fantasy wizards he doesn’t live in a world of dwarves and elves. Instead he lives in Chicago, a far cry from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, in Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files series.
‘A man is not dead while his name is still spoken’
Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the immensely popular Discworld series and Officer of the Order of the British Empire, died on March 12 at the age of 66, of complications arising from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.