This is the first book I’ve read by Jack O’Connell. It won’t be the last.
It’s the story of Sweeney, a pharmacist by trade, and his son Danny. Danny is in a coma following an accident, and Sweeney has taken a job at the Peck Clinic, an unusual forbidding institution that offers the hope of [...]
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The Resurrectionist, by Jack O’Connell
August 9th, 2009 · No Comments · books
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Watchmen (big old spoilers in here)
March 10th, 2009 · No Comments · SF, books, movies
The weirdest thing about this was sitting down waiting for it to start, and thinking that I was finally going to see a Watchmen movie after all the false starts over the years. The great unfilmable graphic novel, on the screen at last.
Unsurprisingly, a lot of the background stuff is missing, the text pieces from [...]
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INTERZONE 220
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments · SF, books
Interzone 220 is blessed with one of the finest covers I’ve ever seen on the magazine (and I’ve been reading since 24).
As for the content, there’s six stories this time round. The issue kicks off with Jason Stoddard’s “Monetized”, a neat enough tale of a near future world where advertising is quite literally in your [...]