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Post-Apocalyptic Timelines
One of the things that Better Dead Than Zed does much better than the original All Things Zombie is to give me an emotional connection to the Star and his group of companions; partly because it starts… more →
Halfway Station
Post-Apocalyptic Timelines
andyslack wrote 3 days ago: One of the things that Better Dead Than Zed does much better than the original All Things Zombie is … more →
Shelf Life
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andyslack wrote 1 week ago: One of the things that struck me as implausible when reading Earth Abides was that decades after the … more →
Nick Discovers Babylon 5
andyslack wrote 2 weeks ago: FX, one of our satellite TV channels, is rerunning Babylon 5 in its entirety at one episode per week … more →
Space Captain Smith
andyslack wrote 1 month ago: A novel by Toby Frost. I have just finished this – after about three months, which shows how m … more →
Stargate Universe
andyslack wrote 1 month ago: The whole family have been huge Stargate fans since the beginning. Sadly, the latest incarnation may … more →
Lest Darkness Fall
andyslack wrote 2 months ago: You know the idea: You’re suddenly transported back in time and use your superior 21st century … more →
Gunnerkrigg Court
andyslack wrote 2 months ago: I gave up webcomics again last week. Well, except for Girl Genius and Schlock Mercenary, obviously. … more →
The Traveller Trailer
andyslack wrote 2 months ago: When non-gamers look at the gaming table, they just see scruffy bearded types rolling dice. In our h … more →
Hell's Gate
andyslack wrote 3 months ago: This is a novel by David Weber and Linda Evans, which I’m unsure whether to flag as SF or fant … more →
Watch the Sky
andyslack wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been quiet for a few days, because my bride is back from Sicily! Yay! And since then, our … more →
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (again)
andyslack wrote 3 months ago: Or, what I read on my hols, part 3… My children bought me this as a present, and I read it ove … more →
Earth Abides
andyslack wrote 3 months ago: Or, what I read on my hols, part 2… Earth Abides is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1949 b … more →
Earth Abides
andyslack wrote 3 months ago: Or, what I read on my hols, part 2… Earth Abides is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1949 b … more →
The Tekumel Novels
andyslack wrote 4 months ago: (Or, what I read on my hols, part 1). Finally I got around to reading the last three of these, and s … more →
Dollhouse
andyslack wrote 5 months ago: We’re watching Dollhouse now, Mr Whedon’s latest. It will, of course, be cancelled and n … more →
The 15 Books Thing
andyslack wrote 6 months ago: A challenge from Facebook; list the first 15 books you think of in 15 minutes that will stay with yo … more →
The Last Colony
andyslack wrote 9 months ago: This is the final part of John Scalzi’s trilogy, at least so far, about the Colonial Union and … more →
Why didn't I think of this?
andyslack wrote 10 months ago: Specifically, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. Jane Austen’s Bennett girls as kung fu zomb … more →
Ghost Brigades and Screwtape Letters
andyslack wrote 11 months ago: This week, I have been reading C S Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, and John Scalzi’s The G … more →
