Book Review: Rosewater
-Winner of the Clarke Award this year, Tade Thompson’s Rosewater is the first in the Wormwood trilogy. It tells the story of an alternative future with a transformed Nigeria playing host to an alien dome, right in the centre of the eponymous new city.
FrightFest
-The UK’s foremost horror film festival is celebrating its 20th year. As they prepare for their Halloween event, we take a look at two decades of FrightFest… The first time I went to FrightFest, I didn’t think of myself as a horror fan. I liked vampires, and I would tell anyone who would sit still for it about the time I’d seen The Woman in Black on stage and then couldn’t sleep until the sun came up, but I didn’t know much about the genre as a whole. However, FrightFest was hosting the first UK screening of Timur Bekmambetov’s Day Watch and I was desperate to see it, having fallen in love with its predecessor, Night Watch.
Wargaming On A Budget
-Wargames are a fantastically popular, but surprisingly expensive, hobby. However, if you’re smart about it, there are ways to get started without breaking the bank.
The Witcher’s New Frontier
-There’s always a certain trepidation when a franchise branches out. And for the Witcher franchise, a new frontier is rapidly opening that could see it elevated to the same level as Game Of Thrones, or Lord Of The Rings. The upcoming Netflix series has already amazed critics and fans alike with pre-screenings and a generous amount of teasing. But will the aard-ent fanbase of both novels and video games be able to deal with changes the show has made?
Erden Foe
-The castle was decimated — a blackened and pockmarked shell all that remained, as if it had been the target of an air strike. Overhead, the maroon sky boiled and churned. Lightning flashed, thunder boomed. Flashes of electrical discharge revealing the ground underfoot in grizzly, illuminated horror. Blood and guts for carpet. “Erden! Erden!” I dimly registered Yarmina screaming my name. The creature’s cries were deafening — years of artillery fire, gunshots at close range, and death metal music had never felt as loud…
The Symbol for Eternity: A Discussion of Borges’ “The Aleph”
-As a writer, Jose Luis Borges had the uncanny ability to succinctly illustrate the conflicting essence of human life with the universe at large. Much of his works contain themes and situations that are inherently paradoxical in nature, usually stemming from the fact that we as a species, with our finite lives and limited senses are fundamentally ill provisioned at exploring the (near) infinite depths of our universe.
