Science Fiction Play Review – Karel Capek – R U R
March 25, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, SCIENCE FICTION | By Arthur Chappell
1920 – Spoiler alerts A rarely seen in performance SF masterpiece and the stage play that first introduced the word Robots into the language. R U R standing for Rossum’s Universal Robots. The story is Frankenstein in mass
The Rain Trilogy by Joseph A. Turkot
March 14, 2015 | Posted in HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION | By sockii
What if one day it started raining…and it never, ever stopped?
That’s the unique premise behind Joseph A. Turkot’s post-apocalypse trilogy The Rain, which follows a pair of determined survivors on a treacherous journey across what’s left of America…
Zombie, Illinois: A Novel by Scott Kenemore
February 17, 2015 | Posted in HORROR, PARANORMAL | By sockii
The zombie apocalypse has come to America. In fact, it seems to have originated somewhere here in the mid-west, near one of the largest cities in the United States: Chicago…
Book Review: Captive Prince Volume One by C. S. Pascat
February 16, 2015 | Posted in FANTASY, LGBT THEMES | By sockii
In the kingdom of Akielos, Prince Damen is a hero to his people. He is the rightful heir to the throne, but he is not without his enemies—including his own half-brother…
Book Review: The Towers of Tuscany by Carol M. Cram
February 14, 2015 | Posted in HISTORICAL | By sockii
Sofia Barducci is the daughter of a highly regarded painter in the medieval Italian town of San Gimignano. When she was younger, she learned how to paint and draw from her father, and though the lessons were often hard and grueling she developed a fine talent herself…
John Taylor: In The Pleasure Groove
September 17, 2014 | Posted in MUSIC, NON-FICTION | By sockii
Like many teenage girls in the 1980s, I was a huge “Duranie” and went through a phase of being madly in love with John Taylor, the gorgeous bassist of my favorite band at the time: Duran Duran. While that teenage crush might have faded through the years (or shall we say matured?), I remain…
Queen Henry: A delightful novel on baseball, love and sexuality by Linda Fausnet
August 27, 2014 | Posted in LGBT THEMES, ROMANCE | By sockii
What if a pill could change a person’s sexuality? That’s the question at the heart of Queen Henry, the delightful debut novel by author Linda Fausnet. It’s also the question plaguing the novel’s protagonist…
Book Review: Chris Campion’s Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock
August 24, 2014 | Posted in CLASSIC ROCK, NON-FICTION | By sockii
Chris Campion’s Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock is, quite easily, the most negatively-toned rock “biography” – and I use that term very lightly in this case – I can recall ever reading. While there is some interesting information contained within the book’s 300 pages, each of those pages is so thoroughly laced with…
Book Review: Secret Police Man By Henry Padovani
August 22, 2014 | Posted in NON-FICTION, ROCK | By sockii
Those interested in the punk and new wave music scene of London in the late 70s and early 80s should find an interesting perspective in “Secret Police Man”, the autobiography of The Police’s first guitarist, Henry Padovani…
The Vampires Series by Michael Schiefelbein
August 21, 2014 | Posted in LGBT THEMES, PARANORMAL, ROMANCE | By sockii
Dark, dangerous, erotic – and perhaps more than a little bit blasphemous – the Vampires Series follows the life, loves and challenges of 2,000 year old vampire Victor Decimus. Victor is definitely not your typical modern-day romantic “hero” vampire. He is brutally amoral, has little regard for human life, and is in fact on a centuries-long vendetta…
