Factory Town

This is one wild book.  For starters, like his previous novel, Corrosion, the author has never met a set of quotation marks he liked.  Even in dialog, you may ask?  Nope, not even in dialog.  Sentences just run along; dialog bumping into or bracketing narration...

Hell Comes To Hollywood II

Hell Comes To Hollywood II, is a collection of themed stories that deal with the dark side of movie making (well, for the most part it does, some of these tales deal with the peripheries of the business).  On the whole, the anthology receives a big thumbs up; it is...

Martuk…The Holy: Proseuche

Have you ever finished a book, put it down, and then asked yourself, what in the hell did I just read? Granted, you usually don’t wait until the end of a book to ask yourself some variation of that question, and that was certainly my case in, Martuk…The Holy:...

Blood Paternal (Origins Of Blood – Book 1)

Vampire novels, they’re a dime a dozen.  Most of them all read the same, and most of them offer little more than what we’ve come to expect from the trope. In my opinion, there’s only one way to beat this undead horse if you’re going to have a go at it, and that’s with...

Alien: Sea Of Sorrows

Alien: Sea Of Sorrows, Novel 2 in the Alien tie-In series, picks up about 100 years after the third Alien movie.  Ellen Ripley is still dead (though there is no mention of her clone) and the company she had worked for, Weyland-Yutani, is still looking to cash in on...