Lord Samper's Library

Because yesterday was a bit crazy and didn’t leave me with much time for reading in the evening. A couple of short stories and that was about it. Today looks very likely to go in the same direction (hospital appointment and a lot of work to catch up on all at the same time) so while I have a few minutes spare, let me tell you about last night’s reading. One good and one, erm… not so good, lets do the ‘not so good’ first. Here goes… ‘Embers of Extinction (The Horus Heresy Primarchs)’ – Brandon Easton (Black Library) For many long years, Perturabo has harboured a grudge against his primarch brother Rogal Dorn. With the outset of the Horus Heresy, he has a chance to finally avenge himself against Dorn and his Imperial Fists – but the disastrous Battle of Phall has just embittered him further. Determined to slake his thirst for revenge, Perturabo sets his Iron Warriors on a mission to devastate Dorn's sons… at any cost. I’ve only ever come across Perturabo as a supporting character (wh...

I somehow never got round to watching ‘Alien: Romulus’ at my local cinema (and there’s a big question over whether anyone will watch anything there ever again but that’s another story) but after a few weeks of waiting for the price, on Prime Video, to come down, ‘Romulus’ suddenly became affordable and that was my cue to grab a copy, order a pizza in and give it a watch. I’ll be honest, I’m more of a ‘Predator’ fan myself but I’ll never pass up the chance of watching an ‘Alien’ movie and the prospect of an ‘Alien’ movie directed by the same guy who directed the ‘Evil Dead’ remake was an intriguing one to me. So, slice of pizza in hand, I started watching and… While scavenging a derelict space station, a group of young colonists looking for a better life find the most terrifying life form in the universe instead. And there may well be something even more terrifying on board… As I’ve got older, I’ve found that my natural ‘movie run-time tolerance’ peters out at about an hour and half. An...

I was in no fit state to get any reading done, over the weekend, but luckily, I was in just the right mood to sit in my comfy chair and watch some TV. Well, a lot of TV actually ;o) Me and my eldest have a little movie night on Friday so I thought I'd take the opportunity to watch 'Alien vs. Predator' and 'Alien vs. Predator Requiem' and see if either would work for next Friday. It won't surprise you to learn that we'll be watching one but not the other... And I'd never seen a 'Saw' movie, until I saw that 'Jigsaw' was on Netflix and I thought 'why not...' Let me tell you about them ;o) 'Alien vs. Predator' (2004) A pyramid lies between the Antarctic ice. But what has it called, and what is hatching within it...? An archaeological team are caught between two warring alien species, one of which must not be allowed to escape the pyramid... Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who enjoys 'Alien vs, Predator';...

Just a quick one today as it’s my first day back, after a week’s leave (which was really nice thanks, I’ll have to do it again sometime), and I’ve got a horrible feeling that my inbox is going to be heaving. Fingers crossed that it isn’t but… Wish me luck? Anyway, a few ‘Predator’ novels have featured here, over the last few weeks, so I thought it was only fair that I balanced this out with at least one ‘Alien’ novel and that novel ended up being ‘Enemy of My Enemy’; a book that Amazon ‘helpfully’ reminded me has been on my bookshelf for far too long. I’ll be honest, the state of my head at the moment, if I’m not reading exactly the right book at exactly the right time… Well, I wouldn’t finish anything. Anyway… The stars aligned and I’m very glad that they did. ‘Enemy of My Enemy’ was exactly the book I needed. HYGIEIA―AN OUTER RIM COLONY―IS DOOMED The moon on which it was built hurtles toward an inevitable collision with the dead planet Hephaestus. The clock is ticking, yet when a d...