Published: Publisher: Pages: Format Read: Blur: Set during the events of all four Alien™ films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe’s most dangerous monsters, these adventures are guaranteed to send the blood racing— One way or another. When the Colonial Marines set out after […]
Read more "Aliens: Bug Hunt – Various"Published: 1 September 2020 (Original was in 1908) Publisher: Manga Classics Inc Pages: 308 Format Read: Pocket Book App on I-phone Blurp: Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables – instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant […]
Read more "Manga Classics: Anne of Green Gables – L.M Montgomery"Published: 1915Publisher: N/APages: 98Format Read: Audible Blurp: This is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken […]
Read more "Metamorphosis – Frans Kafka"Published: 5 June 2012Publisher: Tor BooksPages: 320Series: Stand AloneFormat Read: Audible Blurp: Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn’t […]
Read more "Redshirts – John Scalzi"Published: Set for 8 September 2020 Publisher: Tokyopop/ Diamond Book Distributors Pages: 356 Series: Arai The Masterpiece (Vol 6) Format Read: Pocketbook App on I-phone Blurp: On the planet Aqua, a world once known as Mars, Akari Mizunashi has just made her home in the town of Neo-Venezia, a futuristic imitation of the ancient city […]
Read more "Aria: The Masterpiece Vol 6 – Kozue Amano"Published: 26 August 2014Publisher: OrbitPages: 846Series: Lightbringer #3Format Read: Audible Blurp: As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe, Gavin Guile. But Gavin’s enslaved on a galley, and when he finally escapes, he finds himself in less […]
Read more "The Broken Eye – Brent Weeks"Published: 4 October 2016 Publisher: Audible Pages: 130 (Hardcover Edition) Series: Stand Alone Format Read: Audible Blurp: One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone – 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don’t know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily […]
Read more "The Dispatcher – John Scalzi"Welcome to another Metal Monday. Today’s song is a bit of an oddball, but I like the artistry that goes with the video, its quite a sight to behold even if you are not into the gravelly vocals. Finntroll are a band I am not too familiar with, but have known of for a few […]
Read more "Metal Monday – Finntroll – Forsen"Published: 15 October 2019 Publisher: Black Library Pages: 576 Series: Deathwatch (#2 in the Steve Parker series) Format Read: Kindle on I-phone Blurp: Talon Squad return to action, hutning for a missing inquisitor on a world that has been claimed by the T’au Empire – but has their quarry been taken, or defected to the […]
Read more "Deathwatch: Shadowbreaker – Steve Parker"Welcome to today’s Metal Monday. Today a band I have featured quite a bit around last year when I first discovered them. Gojira is a band that not only make a great music, but they are also active in making people aware that the earth needs us as much as we need it. I love […]
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