Far be it from me to promote another bald bespectacled cartoonist who isn’t our own dear DJ Bogtrotter, but I’d like to bring pbrainey to your attention. Yes, he’s only a friend of a friend (hi Neil) but he’s got a new book out that I quite like - The Book of Lists – and he’s signing [...]
I am actually a huge fan of J. G. Ballard. For me, his work was the perfectly polarised companion to the Star Trek adventures of the early 80′s, novelisations around which I read widely, expanding my sci-fi universe to incorporate Dick, Clarke, Asimov, and the paralysing Michael Moorcock, a writer so psychologically convoluted and relentlessly dystopian I could just never finish [...]
I’ve just finished reading ‘Watchmen’ and, while I did find it a compelling story rivettingly told – apart from the pace-killing prose sections at the end of each chapter, which I dreaded – there was the odd narrative quirk that didn’t make any sense to me whatsoever. if anyone with a greater understanding of comic [...]
BOOK REVIEW : “Bad Science” By Ben Goldacre There’s been talk of a new enlightenment, and what with leaders of the free world having conversations with God, the NHS funding “alternative medicine” and the media’s misinformation helping us to stagger from one health scare to another, there’s certainly a need for us to return to [...]
