With the arrival of "Columbo - The Complete Sixth and Seventh Seasons" the DVD release of the original Columbo shows is complete....

  "Polyphemus" is a 1987 collection of horror shorts by Michael Shea. I guess he's better known for his Nift the Lean books ...

  "The Thousandfold Thought" is the concluding volume of R. Scott Bakker's "The Prince of Nothing" trilogy.   The H...

"The Warrior Prophet"  is the sequel to "The Darkness That Comes Before" and left me gasping for breath.   Sure there ar...

"The Darkness That Comes Before" is the first volume of a mere three volume fantasy trilogy by Canadian R. Scott Bakker. I disc...

"Shaman's Crossing" is the first of a stack of new fantasy books I picked up in hope of finding something that didn't sti...

I received "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" and its predecessor "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max B...

I just received and read "Wizardry & Wild Romance" by Michael Moorcock. I have a decent little collection of non-fiction b...

So I succumbed and bought "Velocity" the other day. I'd been checking it out since its initial publication last year becaus...

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So it's five years later, it still sucks and we're all gonna die and everything's changed. Forget the war in Iraq and Afghani...

After years of dillydallying I've just finished the first volume of Gene Wolfe's "Urth of the New Sun" tetraology. I reme...

"Three Days to Never" is Tim Powers' lastest book and as usual portrays a supernatural world underlying our mundane one. T...

So a few months ago I was exposed to the joys of download whole decades long series of comics via bit torrents. Yee ha!!!! I found all (ALL...

"Life With Father" is the basis for the classic William Powell (to whom we should all genuflect towards as a paradigm of martini...

Anthony Bourdain is the chef de cuisine at a French restaurant in Manhattan who achieved a degree of notoriety a few years back with a tell ...

"Hellboy: Strange Places" is the latest collection of recent Hellboy comics and after the hit or miss nature of the BPRD books i...

Tsing Loh is a very funny writer and radio personality from southern California. I first heard her years ago on Market Place on public radi...

"The Book of the Dead" is Preston and Child's concluding book in their Pendergast Trilogy and their seventh book about the e...

"Mary Poppins Opens the Door" is the third book in PL Travers' surreal series about the tough, magical nanny and London'...