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Review: Broken Angels – Richard K. Morgan
Takeshi Kovacs serves as a pro-Protectorate mercenary in a planetary uprising on Sanction IV, when he is contacted by a member of an archaeological mission who promises rich rewards if he helps them return to a dig site in an active war zone to uncover one of the most important Martian finds in history.
Curator Conversation: Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy
In this special in-depth conversation – including spoilers – Peter and Jop will dive into the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson.
Review: Sea of Rust – C. Robert Cargill
Brittle is a scavenger robot wandering the Sea of Rust looking for derelict robots to loot for parts. When she gets damaged herself and needs rare parts to repair her own body, the stakes are raised to a new level.
Review: The Boys – Amazon Prime
In a grim world in which superheroes are the instruments of corporate and political interests and care more for their reputation than for saving anyone, a group of vigilantes is trying to bring superheroes to justice for the heinous crimes and collateral damage on their record.
Curator Question: 2023 Resolutions
Our Curators discuss their 2023 New Year’s Resolutions – what is on their to be read/watch/listen/play list for the coming year?
Yearly Wrap-up: 2022 in Review
At the start of 2022, our curators chose some resolutions for themselves? Which media on their to be read/watch/listen/play piles did get their attention? And what else did the year bring?
Review: Avatar II: The Way of Water – James Cameron
Inevitably, the Sky People return to Pandora. Jake Sully organises the Na’vi resistance. But when he finds out the humans are specifically targeting him and the family he has built in their absence, he decides that the best way to protect his family and the clan that adopted him is to move far away, to where the human’s can’t find them. Right?
Curator Question: What is your favourite The Lord of the Rings-meme?
Our curators share their favourite memes based on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy!
Review: Leviathan Wakes – James S.A. Corey
Jim Holden serves on an interplanetary ice hauler when disaster strikes. He and a handful of his crewmates are thrust into the center of an encroaching conflict between the superpowers of the solar system: Earth and Mars. Joe Miller works security on the most populous space station in the Kuyper Belt until his investigations lead him to a mysterious connection with the cause of the looming war.
Review: Avatar – James Cameron
In this visual spectacle, a disabled marine, travels to the distant moon of Pandora to join a corporate mining operation. He will enter the avatar-programme, whose members transfer their consciousness to human-alien hybrid clones to communicate with the local population.
Review: Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution – R.F. Kuang
Robin Swift is taken from his native Kanton to Oxford to study translation: the art of producing magic from the difference in meaning between translated words in different languages. He is torn by the contradiction between his love for Oxford’s translation institute Babel and the study of languages on the one hand, and his growing unease at Britain’s role in the world and Babel’s role in Britain.
Review: Hades – Supergiant Games
Zagreus, son of Hades, god of the dead, wants to escape from the underworld to see the surface, where the mortals live, and to discover his heritage. His father is dead set on preventing this from happening. In this rogue-like video game, battle through chambers filled with hordes of Hades’ minions, slain heroes, and mortals undergoing punishment as you enlist the help of the Olympian gods to fight your way to the surface.