Reviews - JAMIE SAWYER

Book review: Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos

Lockdown in the UK is coming to an end. The restrictions on going outside are coming to an end for most people, and for the more vulnerable the restrictions are[…]

Book review: Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler

I hope this blogpost finds everyone well. It’s a massive understatement to say that we are living in trying times, given that the recent COVID-19 outbreak has pushed many of[…]

Book review: The Anarch by Dan Abnett

The Anarch is the latest instalment in Dan Abnett’s highly popular Gaunt’s Ghosts series from Black Library. Here’s the blurb: “On the forge world of Urdesh, the massed forces of[…]

Netflix review: I Am Mother

I Am Mother is the latest SF offering from Netflix. Starring Luke Hawker, Clara Ruugard, Rose Byrne and Hilary Swank, here’s the blurb: “A teenage girl is raised underground by a[…]

Comic review: Fire and Stone – the Collected Edition

This week, the Alien and Predator universe receives a new injection of canon, with the release of The Predator. I’m got mixed feelings about the revisiting of such a well-loved[…]

Event review: DC’s Dawn of Superheroes at the O2, London

Today I want to tell you about DC’s Dawn of Superheroes exhibition, currently located in the O2, in London. Dawn of Superheroes is an original creation by Art Ludique. It[…]

Movie review: Ant-Man and the Wasp

Ant-Man was a surprise hit of 2015. Adopting the Guardians of the Galaxy formula, the movie managed to balance humour with action, diverging from the standard Marvel template just enough[…]

Blu ray review: Ready Player One

Ready Player One started life as a book by Ernest Cline, and on its release on 2011 it very quickly acquired a cult status. By the time I came to[…]

Book review: The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter

The Massacre of Mankind is the second time that Stephen Baxter has revisited one of the many worlds of HG Wells. In 1995, he wrote The Time Ships – a[…]

Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White

An original Alien book is something special in my reading calendar, and when Alex White’s The Cold Forge hit my radar late last year I was immediately interested. But that[…]