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Review: American Gods – Neil Gaiman
When Shadow is released from prison and travels home to attend the funeral of his wife, he meets a mysterious and enigmatic man who calls himself Mr Wednesday and who offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. In the service of Mr Wednesday, Shadow finds himself drawn into the world of myths, legends and gods from bygone eras.
Review: Vampire Survivors – Luca Galante
This dirt cheap indie SHMUP has you control a little pixel-art vampire picking up weird and wondrous weapons and items as ever-increasing swarms of enemies try to get you.
Review: All Systems Red – Martha Wells
Part one of the Murderbot Diaries – All Systems Red is the the story of a robot-human hybrid indentured security unit that hacked its governor module so it could watch the future equivalent of Netflix instead of paying attention to its assigned duties – until mysterious equipment failures threaten the safety of the planetary exploration mission it is attached to and force it to take its job (at least a bit more) seriously.
Review: The Road – John Hillcoat
This faithful adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy book tells the story of a man and his son, trying to survive like normal humans in a post-apocalyptic world that is broken beyond all normalcy.
Review: The Difference Engine – William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
The Difference Engine is a collection of steampunk stories set in an alternative 1855 in which Great Britain is run by radical industrial reformers and mechanical computers.
May 2022 Update – Peter
Peter’s update for May 2022!
Review: Echo – Thomas Olde Heuvelt
When a young mountaineer is mutilated by a terrible accident in the Swiss Alps, his boyfriend finds him changed upon his return to the Netherlands, and something appears hidden behind the mask of bandages that covers his face…
Review: Chappie – Neill Blomkamp
A software developer testing an advanced AI program gets kidnapped by gangsters looking to hack police robots for a heist – and end up raising the AI they accidentally captured.
Review: District 9 – Neill Blomkamp
A mothership full of aliens in desperate plight arrives on earth, and society responds as it always has to the arrival of outsiders: the aliens end up in a slum on the edges of Johannesburg..
Curator Question: What is the last piece of media you didn’t finish, and why?
Our curators discuss the latest pieces of media they didn’t finish, as well as the reason they didn’t.
Collected: Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt
COLLECTION: On the night before he will receive his knighthood, the young squire Tiuri leaves the chapel of his nightly vigil to answer the call of a stranger asking for help from the dark outside…
Review: Letter for the King – Tonke Dragt
On the night before he will receive his knighthood, the young squire Tiuri leaves the chapel of his nightly vigil to answer the call of a stranger asking for help from the dark outside…