The world is full of rattlesnakes. Sometimes you step on them and they don’t bite. Sometimes you step over them and they bite anyway. Stephen King has a new collection of short stories! Which he released last May. I probably should have gotten to this in October, but actually this feels less like a Halloween
Yes, I know we never posted a review of Book 2 of Greg Rucka’s Lazarus graphic novel series. It’s an excellent book, you really should read it, but we can skip it for the purposes of Book 3, because it focuses on one of the many desperately poor families in this dystopian future, with the
Yes, yes, of course Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes saved the world. But what have they done for us lately? It’s New Year’s Eve! Time for one more quick review of a 2024 book (gotta pad those review numbers y’know). And what a book. The first book in this series, Space Opera, was a
Quick! There’s still time to buy Stjepan Šejić’s Fine Print – Volume 2 for someone as a Christmas present! Or maybe for yourself. Have you read this yet? Because you absolutely need to read this series if you love tales of love and sex wrapped up in mythology and glorious artwork. Volume 1 concluded by
We’re getting closer to Halloween, smack in the middle of Spooky season, time for a Spooky book! The original plan was to read Stephen King’s latest, but then I found out that Laird Barron – cosmic horror writer extraordinaire – just released his fifth short-story collection. Stephen King can wait, this one’s MINE. I’ve been
It was the first time that January really understood that normal life was over. I’m a little behind on this one, but only because I always start reading a new Natasha Pulley novel when on a big family vacation, so I had to wait a bit to get the perfect timing for our trip to
I’m having a hard time believing it, but it’s been just over eight years since I last posted a review of a China Mieville story. He’s one of my favorite authors, as evidenced by the fact that we at Pixelated Geek have reviewed seven of his books over the years, along with name-dropping him every
There is a book that is also a loop. A book that has swallowed its own tale. It is a ring, a cycle, burning through the years, spreading cracks through time, fissures that reach into its past and future. And through those cracks things that have no business in the world of flesh can escape.
On earth, in heaven, and within, Three wars to lose, three wars to win. Cut the path. Mark the days. Turn the tides. Three tasks before the season dies: Turn rotten fruit to flower, Slay the god-bride still unloved, Press the son to fell the sire. Victory then to the Carrion King who in winning