Given that half the point of Iris Wildthyme appears to be to pastiche genres of various descriptions, I can see the attraction behind the idea for The Panda Book of Horror. After all the horror genre, almost more than any other, is awash with styles and tropes which are practically designed for pastiche. On the other hand, it is quite hard to ( Read more... )

I'm fairly sure I haven't attended a Dr Who convention in about 20 years, but when a convention was announced dedicated to the Doctor Who novels, which was going to take place in B's favourite Manchester pub, I didn't feel I had much excuse not to go.

( Novelcon, including a half-remembered Primeval anecdote in the sixth paragraph )

So, errr, about sixth months ago the JadePagoda decided all to read and review The Many Hands by Paul Dale Smith. I am more than a little late, both in reading it and then in writing this review ( Read more... )

The last segment of Time and Relative Dissertations in Space was the part that contained the most essays that read like articles out of DWM. This kind of journalistic article is very well but, as I've got older, I've become more aware of the way these things really are just opinion with no real theoretical framework to back them up and so they ( Read more... )