With all the hubbub about the upcoming X-Files episodes, I thought it was time to finally read David Duchovny’s novel Holy Cow. I honestly didn’t know what to expect. I’d heard it talked about animal cruelty, and tolerance for others, which sounded like a pretty serious message. This is not a serious book. This is David
Fans of Star Trek: The Original Series will remember the episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”. Fans of Harlan Ellison will probably remember that he wrote the teleplay, which was then altered by several writers. In 2014, IDW published a five-issue version of Ellison’s teleplay, adapted by Scott and David Tipton and with art by
The Pixelated Geek crew is prepping for Comic-Con, so there’s just enough time for a quick book review before the festivities start. And since there may be an upcoming podcast on fan-fiction, the review this week will be for something that’s every fan-fic’s writer’s dream: fan-fiction that’s been published with permission from the author of the original work. Hugh
Readers of Chuck Palahniuk’s comic book sequel to Fight Club might see his recently released short-story collection Make Something Up and think “Oh hey, it’s the guy who wrote the book that the Brad Pitt film was based on. I’ll probably love this.” Whoa. Slow down. Hold up. Hang on just a minute. Palahniuk is
There have been cases of mysteriously abandoned ships recorded throughout history. They even have a poetic name: ships without a soul. The Marie Celeste is just the most famous of a whole list of ghost vessels; derelict ships with no signs of a struggle, just a logbook that ends for no reason, and sometimes food still
Naomi Kritzer is an extremely prolific writer of short stories (my favorite format), and her collection Comrade Grandmother made me curious to see what she can do when she has an entire novel’s worth of room. In Freedom’s Gate – the first book in The Dead River’s trilogy – Kritzer expands on the world hinted at in her short story “Spirit Stone”.
The final book of Charlie N. Holmburg’s The Paper Magician trilogy opens with Ceony just weeks away from the end of her apprenticeship as a Paper Magician. Having to prepare for the Folder’s exam would be stressful enough even without the secret she’s keeping about being able to break her bond with Paper and work with other
Everyone should be familiar with the fairytale of Beauty and the Beast: a father takes refuge in an abandoned castle and picks a rose without permission, so his beautiful daughter must come live with the Beast, who she restores to humanity when she agrees to marry him. You’ve probably seen quite a few versions, all with the
Karen had to learn to do for herself years ago when her beloved Da died, leaving her orphaned and penniless. Working as a high-class prostitute isn’t exactly what her parents would have wanted, but she’s good at it, and she’s comfortably situated at the finest bordello in Rapid City, where the girls are well fed and protected from