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Book Review: ‘Seconds’ by Bryan Lee O’Malley
After being the singular driving force behind a modern pop-culture smash hit you’ve got to expect a bit of scrutiny on your follow up. The now well known Scott Pilgrim comic series (further popularised...
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Book Review: ‘Ghosts in the Machine’ by Tobacco Jones
When we received a copy of this novel in the post we didn’t know what to make of it. The title echoed Ghost in the Shell and the blurb suggested similar themes, and the cover…I couldn’t work it out. It...
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Book Review: ‘Murder in Mississippi’ by John Safran
I think that’s the first time I’ve had to write the word ‘Mississippi’. It’s fun to type. My knowledge and experience with the region are pretty minimal because I have lived most of my life in...
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Book Review: ‘The Silo Trilogy’
By Hedge I’m a fan of a good dystopia. I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic media from films like Mad Max, and the recent, truly stunning These Final Hours, to novels like 1984 and The Hunger...
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Book Review: ‘Afterward’ by C. Aric Hanley
Disclaimer: The other of this novel is a member of the writing and creative team at House of Geekery. This review is not a promotion but intended to be singular perspective of the reviewer. So it’s the...
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My Top 10 Favorite Stephen King Novels (Part I)
Although I’d probably cite Pat Conroy as my favorite author, Stephen King runs a close second. He’s the author who’s most influenced my writing career. I’ve been enamored with the king of horror...
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My Top 10 Favorite Stephen King Novels: Part II
There’s not much sense in doing a preamble to the second part of an article and as a great horror writer once wrote, “Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn’t it?”...
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The Top 10 Characters from Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’
Yesterday we lost the legendarily prolific fantasy writer and satirist Sir Terry Pratchett. Luckily for us we have his characters, who exist beyond the stories he told having grown beyond the pages...
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Exclusive Interview with Kylie Chan!
Over the weekend, we at the House of Geekery had the pleasure of catching up with best selling author, Kylie Chan, for a chat about her books and her work as a writer. I caught her at a heap of her...
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10 Potential ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequels (That Are Totally Canon)
So after a long time I have finished reading The World of Ice and Fire. This not unsurprisingly dense tome provides an in-depth account of the world of Westeros from before written history to the...
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Book Review: ‘The Forgotten Son’ by Andy Frankham-Allen
Plot: Colonel Alister Lethbridge-Stewart is managing the paperwork following the Great Intelligence’s invasion of London, including transporting the evacuated population back to their homes, while...
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The Disney Literature Challenge
I’m in the middle of completing The Disney Challenge, which is when you watch all the official animated Disney films in order, I got to thinking that I wish I could read Disney films and voila! Here...
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Book Review: “City of Death”, by James Goss
“You’re a beautiful woman, probably.” – The Doctor, City of Death (1979) The Doctor Who story City of Death has quite a legacy. Rewritten (from an original story by David Fisher) over a weekend by...
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The Geekery Guide: Who is Sir Terry Pratchett and What is the Discworld?
Anyone whose browsed the fantasy section of any bookshop in the past 30 years would have noticed dozens of titles carrying similar artwork and bearing the name ‘Terry Pratchett’ on the spine. You can’t...
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Book Review: ‘Armada’ by Ernest Cline
Plot: Set in Oregon in Spring 2018, Armada follows the story of eighteen year old Zack Lightman. A fatherless high school student raised by his mother, Zack suffers through the last few months of his...
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Terry Pratchett Just Trolled Us From Behind the Grave
We’ve talked about Sir Terry Pratchett here from time to time, such as this guide to the Discworld series, his 10 best characters and, sadly, a tribute following his departure from the mortal plane....
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Book Review: ‘There is a Light That Never Goes Out’ by Justin Cawthorne...
Let’s take a moment to talk about the self-published market that has blown up thanks to Amazon and Kindle related technologies. Anyone can now publish their own work for people to read and pay for, and...
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Halloween Reading Suggestions
For my fellow bibliophiles on this site, the Halloween season is always a time to celebrate. At libraries and book stores across the nation the horror books pulled out of the dark corners they usually...
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Why it’s hard to like literary 007 in 2015
Last year, it was announced that acclaimed writer Anthony Horowitz would be writing the next James Bond continuation novel. Released in September 2015, Trigger Mortis hailed the publicity-grabbing...
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Book Review: ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ by Holly Madison
Here’s an intriguing premise – a peek behind the doors of the fabled Playboy Mansion and into the lives of those who reside there. The most famous pornographic publication in history, a name synonymous...
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