Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
(Note: I received this novel as an ARC from Angry Robot Books, through Netgalley.) Morningside Fall, by Jay Posey, is what you can call a good reading, no matter if you are (as I am) a hard SF lover and…
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It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I could not avoid checking out. It ended with me reading everything – and I repeat, everything…
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Warning: This is a R-Rating book. Unsuitable for YAs and anybody with a delicate stomach – it’s extremely graphic, to say the least. However, it is also a good book, and if you are a horror fan, it’s definitively worth a…
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What follows is a guest post (for info about how to contribute posts to this page, please look up at Guest Area Section). The original version of this book review, genre fantasy, has been uploaded on Amazon Italy as a verified book…
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When a book starts like The Descent does, with the protagonist blaming himself to be a stalker, pervert, drug-addict, conspiracy theorist, and “fuck it. Compared to all the other things I have to be ashamed of, what I’m doing right…
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It has been rightly affirmed that the World War Z book and the movie share two things in common, the name, and the fact they were made by carbon-based lifeforms (http://io9.com/heres-everything-the-world-war-z-movie-has-in-common-w-586150729); and that the author didn’t reject the movie (http://io9.com/against-all-odds-author-max-brooks-didnt-hate-the-wor-848787012/all ) as…
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It was by mistake that I stumbled upon Apocalypse Z. I was actually searching for Max Brooks’ Word War Z – I heard about the movie, and wanted to read the book first. I am not sure why I got…
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If you have the impression that the world is about to be gobbled up raw in a frenzy of bleeding body parts by hordes of undead, I will reassure you straight way: this is not an impression. In case you’re…
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Writing a summary of the human civilisation that spans from the Australopitecus and its peers to the moment history truly starts is a task that would scare the bravest of the scholars, no matter how confident – or reckless –…
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Rating 4/5 Something is messing with my subconscious, clearly. After crowmen (see my D’Lacey’s The Book of the Crowman review) and zombies (about which I will soon post something) now here I am with yet another creepy creature. A werewolf,…
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