Month: November 2012

Can it really be fifteen years since Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers was released? Taking the structure and events of Robert A Heinlein‘s source novel, often dismissed as fascist

It’s hard to guarantee a hit these days, so when a studio gets one, it wants to make sure that it ekes out every last nickel and dime

The last year has seen a number of comics drawing on hard science or sci-fi themes hit the shelves.  Amongst these have been tales drenched in the bizarre,

Depending on the interpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, 21st December 2012 is allegedly either the end of the world or the herald of a significant change

Successful writers have often featured prominently in the work of Stephen King – the published novelists Ben Mears in ‘Salem’s Lot and Bill Denbrough of It, the poet

The success of the Silent Hill videogames, with nine releases since 1999 plus arcade and mobile versions, virtually guaranteed that it would be adapted for cinema. Set in

Novelist Joe Abercrombie burst on the British fantasy scene with his trilogy The First Law, a grim and bloody epic of characters equally damaged and damaging. His reputation

The city of Glasgow reaches far back, it’s origin a rural settlement in medieval times, that has become a major city of Scotland and one of the largest

Like the characters in his novels, Joe Abercrombie is not a man to be taken lightly. Launching his writing career in 2006 with The Blade Itself, his First