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‘Animosity: Year One’ – Bennett, De Latorre, Schwager, Dillon (Aftershock)

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I’ve said it before but it’s worth saying again, charity shops are the best for book shopping. Charity shops can be full of other peoples junk but they are also full of hidden treasure if you’re patient, or just lucky. You’ve got to take a chance though, pick up that book or comic you’ve never seen before and give it a go, you’ll never know otherwise. Given the price of comics these days, I’ve got to be a little choosy about what I pick up; that’s why I’m happy to give ‘charity shop comic books’ a go, they’re a little kinder on my wallet ;o) That was why I took a chance on ‘Animosity: Year One’ and… One day, for no reason, the Animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking REVENGE. The world is plunged into chaos as the newly-intelligent Animals fight humanity, and simply fight each other, for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In the midst of the turmoil is Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to her and h...
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‘Cypher: Lord of the Fallen’ – John French (Black Library)

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Page Count: 179 Pages As the Great Rift unfolds in the night sky above Terra and daemons walk upon the birth world of mankind, the Primarch Roboute Guilliman returns, heralding a dark new age. During the breaking storm, Cypher and his band of Fallen escape from the most secure prison in the Imperium. Now loose in the Imperial Palace, they are hunted by warriors of the Dark Angels, forces of the Adeptus Custodes, and Imperial Assassins. But what are Cypher’s intentions? Can anything or anyone be trusted? Told from Cypher’s own, unreliable point of view, this tale of truth, lies and secrets sees one of the Imperium’s most mysterious figures make war at its very heart. But what are the true motivations of the Lord of the Fallen? The whole point of the Warhammer 40K setting, at least from where I’m sat, is that nothing changes. On the one level, it can’t because if it does, Games Workshop suddenly has no product to sell ;o) My cynicism to one side though… The Imperium has stagnated, ov...
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‘Conan the Barbarian: Frozen Faith’ – Zub, Braithwaite, Rodriguez (Heroic Signatures/Titan Comics)

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After leaving Cimmeria filled with wanderlust, a young Conan heads north in search of glory. What he finds in that cold climate will change his outlook forever, setting him on the path that will make him a legend. It’s taken me a little longer than planned to pick this book up (blame ‘Into the Narrowdark’ but in a good way, that book absolutely grabbed my attention) but I’m thoroughly enjoying Zub’s ‘Conan’ so reading ‘Frozen Faith’ was always going to be a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’. And at the risk of repeating myself. It was well worth the read. I’m definitely repeating myself but at this point, I don’t care :o) ‘Conan’ really is in the best of hands with Jim Zub who instinctively gets the character, both in terms of adapting Howard’s stories and in letting Conan search out further new adventures. And Doug Braithwaite’s artwork continues to be just superb, really capturing the essence of Conan himself as well as the wider world that he strides through. I’ll be honest… I’ve go...
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Books for the TBR Pile... 'Still On Call' Edition

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Morning all :o) Apologies for the 'blog silence' yesterday. I'm 'on-call' for work and yesterday, I got a call that took a fair while to resolve. If it is resolved that is... I should hopefully find out later on this morning. When I wasn't on-call, I was hanging out with my youngest daughter and that was a lot more fun. I'll be honest, I didn't think of the blog once but, here we are now ;o) Lets talk books, shall we? It has been (another) one of those weeks and it coincided with payday so I thought I'd cheer myself up in the best way that I know how, book shopping :o)  I've skimmed the first couple of chapters of 'Scuttler's Cove' and it looks very promising, promising enough that I thought I'd take a chance on 'Withered Hill' . I will be reading 'Scuttler's Cove' first but 'Withered Hill' won't be far away. I'm more about the shorter reads, at the moment, but finally finishing 'Into the Na...
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A Couple More 'Horus Heresy' Short Stories...

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Yesterday was one of those Thursday's where I find myself repeatedly muttering things like 'just get through it mate' and 'not long until the weekend'... Not the worst day ever, just very intense with a lot of stuff to pack into not enough time. Oh well, not long until the weekend ;o) I wasn't up for much yesterday evening then, stuck a couple of 'Hellraiser' movies on in the background and read a couple of 'Horus Heresy' short stories that I had on my Kindle (well, the Kindle App, I still have no idea where my actual Kindle is...) Turns out that short stories are just good for the bus ride home from work, they're also good for while you're waiting for your dinner to heat up. Let me tell you a little bit about them... 'Ordo Sinister' - John French (Black Library) Page Count: 22 Pages The webway – a bizarre alien landscape created by the eldar in ages long past; a network of otherworldly tunnels that burrow through time and space. ...
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'The Ice Schooner' - Michael Moorcock

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I'm more than a little run off my feet today with month-end, at work, bringing two deadlines that I'm trying (unsuccessfully, it has to be said) to bend to my will. Oh well, just tomorrow to go and then it's the weekend :o) In the meantime, I haven't been able to focus on any current reads enough to finish them for a post here. Because of that, I'm relying on the work of 'Past Me' to cover todays post; I hope you don't mind too much! The plan was to read 'The Ice Schooner' for a more current review but that never quite happened and I need a break today so, here we are ;o) You can read the original review Here but all the important bits are below, A new Ice Age covers an Earth of the distant future, an earth where men pilot mighty ice schooners and hunt down the slowly dwindling race of land whales. It is a world where time is running out for its lonely inhabitants, or is it? Schooner captain Konrad Arflane’s life takes an unexpected turn when he...
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‘Flies’ – Isaac Asimov

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Page Count: Eight Pages. After working my way through the last couple of hundred pages of ‘Into the Narrowdark’, my next read needed to be something completely different and a change of pace as well. You know where I’m coming from ;o) With that in mind then, I took the jump from epic fantasy, straight into a slice of science fiction that I hadn’t read in almost forty years… (Note to self: Stop thinking about how long it has been since you’ve read certain books, you’ll just upset yourself) Wikipedia very kindly let me know that Isaac Asimov’s short story ‘Flies’ first appeared in the June 1953 issue of ‘Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction’, eventually ending up as part of the Asimov collection ‘Nightfall and Other Stories’. And that’s where I first came across ‘Flies’, poring over the books on my Dad’s shelves. He was cool with me reading a little Asimov and while I got a few short stories under my belt, it was ‘Flies’ that stuck with me and the other day, I figured I was well overd...
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