PKD sees future in ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ (1968)
PKD flashback (Book review): The “Blade Runner” franchise starts here, but in many fascinating ways, Dick’s vision contrasts with the film’s.
PKD flashback (Book review): The “Blade Runner” franchise starts here, but in many fascinating ways, Dick’s vision contrasts with the film’s.
After the excellent Golden/Holder “Gatekeeper Trilogy,” I braced myself for a letdown with Diana G. Gallagher’s first entry in the “Buffy” series, “Obsidian Fate” (September 1999). While it is indeed a step down, it’s quite readable, with […]
Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder’s “The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 3: Sons of Entropy” (May 1999) is so epic that Joyce describes it as “almost an entire month of hell, like nothing else you guys have run into” […]
In my review of “Out of the Madhouse,” I noted that it can only take place between “Revelations” and “Lovers Walk,” and that we just have to accept that Faith is for some reason not […]
In their second novel in the adult “Buffy” line, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder continue to go against the conventional wisdom that tie-in novels should be modest. “The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 1: Out of the Madhouse” (January […]
In “Return to Chaos” (December 1998), the second novel of the adult “Buffy” series, Craig Shaw Gardner – in his only “Buffy” entry — gets to a lot of concepts before the TV show does. That makes […]
Like all successful SF/fantasy franchises, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” quickly inspired spinoff novels. The first handful were in the young-adult genre, but when it became apparent that the show appealed to not only high schoolers […]
Book review: Alan Dean Foster’s novelization helps fans connect with the world of the “Prometheus” sequel.
Lincoln Child has already shown his skills in the “sense of place” adventure genre with the likes of “Deep Storm” (the ocean floor), “Terminal Freeze” (the Alaskan tundra) and “The Third Gate” (the swamps of […]
For the 20th anniversary of “Harry Potter,” I’m looking back at the books and films of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World saga. 2007’s “Deathly Hallows” remains the most recent novel J.K. Rowling has penned in the […]