Randalls Round (Oleander Press, pb, 176pp) collects several well-written tales of horror and suspense. They were written by Helen M. Leys...

I'm back running the British Fantasy Awards this year, and the nominees have just been announced: Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holds...

Double Feature: Rise of the Guardians / Hotel Transylvania . Accentuate the positives. Whether from the last, clutching vestiges of Britis...

The filmgoer hoping to evade Edward Cullen’s (Robert Pattinson) constipated-while-sucking-on-a-lemon smile or Jacob Black’s (Taylor Lautne...

In Martian Sands by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing, hb, 224pp), Mars has been settled. The New Israelis are governed by a succession of simu...

Another streaming pile of BS. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome , directed by Jonas Pate, released 9 November 2012 (online); 10 Feb...

Don’t expect another Twilight. In her hugely popular Twilight Saga, author Stephenie Meyer perfected a strategy that compelled people in ...

It’s impossible to cover every complexity Borderlands 2 (2KGames, PS3) provides the player. Its scope is astonishing, its detail overwhel...

“I am Señor 105 of Mexico. I fight for freedom, the defense of mankind and I am a friend to all children.” Iris Wildthyme’s superluchador ch...

Aliens: Colonial Marines (Sega, PS3). It would be pointless for me to go into great detail regarding the backstory to this game: suffice ...

Comedy is an awfully subjective thing. Much as I adore Annie Hall , I reckon Dana Carvey’s The Master of Disguise runs it darn close as o...

Second life, not secondhand. A Coming of Age by Timothy Zahn (Open Road, 2012). When people who were born in the twentieth century gro...

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #43  is now out! It's available as ever for free download, and in response to popular demand with th...

Hi folks. Just a note to let you know that we're not going to bother renewing our silveragebooks.com domain name this year, since we a...

Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch (50th Anniversary Edition, BBC Books, ebook, 2778ll). The plot, in brief, for Wh...

Fringe, Season 5 (Sky 1/Fox). Now that it’s over, like sister show Alias just five years into its run, Fringe (in which a special divis...

A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz (Del Rey, hb, 384pp) is essentially teenage urban fantasy with a light drizzle of steampunk....

Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 2: Knightquest (DC Comics, tpb, 656pp) picks up the story from, naturally, Knightfall Volume 1 , though many rea...

Not all acorns grow into oak trees, and some notes never resolve themselves into proper reviews. Sometimes it might be a lack of time, som...

If you are a member of the British Fantasy Society (congratulations on your wise choice of association!) or if you attended the glorious c...