I have a new gig over on Kirkus Reviews talking about graphic novels tied to literary works. For the first piece, I decided to do Game of Thrones Vol 1 from Dynamite / Bantam. Here’s a clip: Making the leap from print to a visual medium isn’t always easy. Everyone has a favorite book...
Fans of epic fantasy are used to long series – The Wheel of Time & The Sword of Truth come to mind. But I don’t know that even the most hard core fantasy fan would read 51 books in a series without some complaint. I bring this up because Final Crisis is the series...
Soulless by Gail Carriger My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked this book up after talking with the lovely and engaging Gail Carriger for the SF Signal podcast. Karen Burnham, blogger for SF Signal, for her own site http://spiralgalaxyreviews.blogspot.com/ and Editor of the Locus Magazine RoundTable Blog (http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/), had read Soulless and the...
Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War Vol. 2 SC (Green Lantern by Geoff Johns My rating: 1 of 5 stars I didn’t care for this as much as I have the other collections. It was all over the place and didn’t feel very coherent. I think it suffers from the same thing that all of...
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy My rating: 5 of 5 stars I realized I’d never put up a review of this book and that’s a crime. This is the best of the Clancy books and gives us, at last, a picture of who and what John Clark really is. We have seen John Clark...
Thursday night I went to the movies, I saw Season of the Witch. I really enjoyed it. If I had to pin it down, I’d say that Season of the Witch is Sword & Sorcery – that’s how it felt to me. You have all the elements: The Anti-Hero: Behman (Nickolas Cage) is a...
Tales of the Gold Monkey follows the adventures of a former Flying Tiger named Jake Cutter who is working and flying in a French controlled area of the South Pacific in 1938. He is joined by his best friend and mechanic, Corky, and his one eyed dog Jack.
Tales of the Gold Monkey follows the adventures of a former Flying Tiger named Jake Cutter who is working and flying in a French controlled area of the South Pacific in 1938. He is joined by his best friend and mechanic, Corky, and his one eyed dog Jack.
Anthony Rogers first appeared in the pages of Amazing Stories waaaay back in 1928. He pulled a Rip Van Winkle, passing out in a cave and waking up in the 25th century. Gas in the cave held him in a sort of suspended animation, keeping him alive and not aging while he...
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty, "Hi Yo Silver! Away!" With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early west. Return with us now, to the thrilling days of yesteryear...
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Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and Hugo Nominated Podcast Producer/Host who lives in Colorado and writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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