Lord Samper's Library

Every so often, everything kind of catches up with me and one of those things has to be shoved to one side, for later, so that I can get anything else done at all. I can tell that today is going to be one of those days so I'm doing myself a favour and recycling an old review, just to give myself a little room to breathe. I hope you don't mind ;o) I'm all about Fantasy and Horror these days so I thought it would make a change if today focused on some Science Fiction of the 'Masterwork kind'. A little digging came up with 'Man Plus'; a title that I think is well worth a read, even if it's unlikely, right now, that I'll go back for a re-read. The full review can be found over Here but all the important bits follow below... According to computer predictions, colonisation of Mars is mankind’s only hope of avoiding extinction; the Man Plus Programme is an exercise in biological engineering that will pave the way to humankind being able to live on the Red

I’d never read anything by Ronald Malfi and payday had just happened so it was but the work of a minute, or two, to hop onto Amazon and have me a copy of ‘They Lurk’. Why ‘They Lurk’? Easy ;o) I thought a collection of novellas would give me a broader picture of what Malfi writes about, ‘After the Fade’ already looked like the kind of thing that I’d be into (and it was, but more on that in a moment…) and I was keen to see what the other novellas delivered. The original plan then was to dip into ‘They Lurk’ as and when I needed to something short to read, probably on the bus to and from work. As it turned out though, the commute took longer than expected and by the time I got to lunch, I was enjoying ‘They Lurk’ so much that it was very easy to just keep reading. I ended up polishing the whole thing off yesterday and it was time very much well spent. I’ll take a quick look at each novella, in a little more detail, but as a whole, ‘They Lurk’ was a very good read and I’ve already got ‘Gh

It’s taken me a little while to get to this book; not the fault of the book at all, more my habit of stacking books in large piles and then completely forgetting what book is where… I’d like to say that I’ll beat this habit but, no, that’s not happening :o( Anyway… I got there in the end, last week was a little bit of a nightmare and weeks like that are always the best time to read more of the adventures of Gotrek Gurnisson so… let me tell you about the time when Gotrek went up against Nurgle’s most pestilent followers. Gotrek Gurnisson, the legendary Slayer, picks up a new accomplice – and faces a truly grotesque challenge in the disease-ridden spawn of the Plague God himself. Deep in the wilds of Ghyran, a former warrior priest preaches for humanity to reject the gods. The sole survivor of a massacred Dawnbringer Crusade, Amara Fidellus believes that Sigmar has betrayed her. But when she faces execution for such blasphemy, it’s only the intervention of a drunken, taciturn and incre

A sequel to the last 'Movie Night' post that is, I didn't spend yesterday watching sequels... ;o) I've struggled to get into anything reading wise, after finishing 'Deathworlder', so I gave my brain the weekend off, settled down in my favourite chair and set about trying to make a dent in my Prime watchlist. And this is the post where I tell all about what I watched yesterday :o) Lets do it, 'The Last Hope' (2020) The world has been devastated by the virus that has reanimated the dead to consume the living. Australia has so far remained unscathed through a brutal border protection policy and internment facilities. Derek Jones and the High Risk Response Unit restore order to the internment facilities when law and order breaks down. When the arrival of a mysterious girl collides with the uprising at the Briar's Hill Detention Centre, will Australia, the last hope for many, finally fall? I'm not going to lie, a lot of this movie's budget clearly

Apologies for the brief radio silence yesterday. I'm not going to lie, I was asleep for a large chunk of it and then I was at my daughter's birthday party for another large chunk. That's all just scene setting though ;o) The chunk that we're here for is the bit where I sat in my chair and watched a couple of movies; one a re-watch (albeit for the first time a number of years) and the other one a random find on Prime. Let me tell you about them... 'Assault on Precinct 13' (1976) A Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary defend a defunct Los Angeles Precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang bent on revenge... I first watched 'Assault on Precinct 13' years ago, at college, and seem to remember sitting through it but not really getting into it as much as I'd hoped. It's funny how things can change a few years (okay, a number of years, damn I'm old) down the line... 'Assault on Precinct 13' is curr

Page Count: 156 Pages The original plan was for this post to be all about Richard Strachan’s ‘Blightslayer’ and that held true right up until I got home last night and thought I’d read a few pages of ‘Hell Hound’ before I went out and cast my vote. Very soon, a ‘few pages’ became the ‘whole book and I won’t lie, I was lucky that I still had time to make it to the polling station afterwards but anyway… As good as it is, ‘Blightslayer’ is going to have to wait a little bit. I am all about ‘Hell Hound’ right now. Let me tell you about it, quick thoughts for a very slim read... ‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she were to lunge forward, grasping at the air, striking her thin skull against the edge of a stair? What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the sta