by Site Owner | Sep 20, 2011 | Science Fiction
By Gene Wolfe, Tor, $24.99, 304 pages “Virginia waves and Chelle waves back. Do they sense a bond between Chelle and me? Is there any bond there to sense?” Gene Wolfe’s newest novel Home Fires reads like a “Best of…” version of life. The story...
by Site Owner | Sep 15, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels
by Michael Schumacher Bloomsbury Press, $28.00, 360 pages Will Eisner was to comics what John Ford was to westerns: he made them an art. Easily ranked alongside Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Osamu Tezuka as the most important person in sequential art, Eisner was such a...
by Site Owner | Aug 31, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories, Sponsored
by Corey Pung eBook, $6.99, 121 pages Short story collections allow readers a glimpse into different parts of a writer. Author Corey Pung demonstrates his creative and unique talents in his new book The Madness of Art: Short Stories. The collection is split into two...
by Site Owner | Aug 15, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
by Alan Arkin Da Capo Press, $17.00, 201 pages Who would’ve thought one of the best books of the year would be written by an actor? Of course, Alan Arkin, star of Little Miss Sunshine, Catch-22 and about eighty other films, is no ordinary actor. He’s a man who...
by Site Owner | Aug 14, 2011 | Science Fiction
by Jyouji Hayashi Haikasoru, $14.99, 267 pages Sci-Fi rule of thumb: including a black hole can make even the dullest stories stimulating. Take, for example, the lackluster films Event Horizon or Disney’s The Black Hole. With The Ouroboros Wave it’s a different...
