With the release of Aliens prequel Prometheus, OneMetal’s Peter Allison enlists with the colonial marines to review the Colonial Marines Technical Manual – the only guide on how to field-strip your M41A Pulse Rifle…
With the release of The Cabin In The Woods and Avengers Assemble, OneMetal’s Peter Allison reviews Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion.
Fatale mixes gangsters and guns with lovecraftian horror. In a field that’s already knee-deep in genre crossovers, can Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip’s creation stand out?
Chip Kidd moves from designer to writer in this beautiful 30s-set Batman tale.
Oliver Longden dons his trench coat and fedora and hits the mean streets of the city in search of the answer to a question that burns like a shot of cheap whiskey in his gut: is Lady, Go Die actually any good or was the unfinished Mickey Spillane novel left unfinished for a reason?
Peter Allison dons his goggles and flying helmet to review the recent rerelease of Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron. Chocks away!
Have you ever felt that the human race was basically doomed? That the only reason you carried on with life was out of some macabre interest in seeing how it will inevitably all go tits-up. Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves By Matt Ridley might give you a reason to think again.
Out of print for 15 years of legal wrangling, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Flex Mentallo is back. Dave Convery checks out the cult comic to see if it still delivers.
Fantasy done right the first part of the Kingkiller chronicles. If you enjoy great fantasy novels and are happy to jump into a book with a hefty page count there is much to recommend ‘The Name of the Wind’.
A Steampunk adventure set in Victorian London from the man who, if not the genre, at least has been said to have invented the term ‘Steampunk’.
OneMetal’s Pete Allison aims for the head, and talks to Plague Town author Dana Fredsti about her Ashley Parker trilogy, the Army of Darkness, and cats.
Mix Buffy the Vampire Slayer with The Walking Dead, and add a few thousand geek references, and you have just an inkling of what Dana Fredsti’s latest novel Plague Town is like.
As Tears for Fears so memorably said, everybody wants to rule the world. Now Supervillain: The Concise Guide tells you how to take a humble small business and transform it into a tool of global oppression.
Bees, clockwork, clockwork bees, elderly spies, nuns and gangsters – it’s a weird mixture, but Nick Harkaway has never been the most straightforward writer. Despite all that, Angelmaker is a surprisingly fast-paced thriller.
Games Workshop’s publishing branch, The Black Library, announces it’s biggest event to date. The Black Library Weekender will be a two-day event bringing the best in Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40000 literature. Peter Allison dons power armour and finds out more.
Horror author Jonathan Maberry speaks OneMetal’s Pete Allison about his forthcoming zombie-thriller novel Dead Of Night and just why zombies continue to fascinate both him and us.
Sci fi, fantasy and horror festival Alt.Fiction returns once again, with a better and learner program, as well as a new venue. Peter Allison speaks to Alt.Fiction organiser Adele to learn more.
Peter Allison brings news of an earth-shattering event in the history of the universe. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy radio-play is read by the original cast for the first time it’s initial recording.
OneMetal’s Peter Allison reads Seeker, the first in the new vampire themed horror-fantasy series The Garden by Andy Frankham-Allen, editor of the forthcoming anthology Space 1889 & Beyond.
Following the release of her first short story collection Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings, Peter Allison speaks to horror author Sam Stone, writer of the Vampire Gene series.