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Book Review: ‘Seconds’ by Bryan Lee O’Malley
After being the singular driving force behind a modern pop-culture smash hit you’ve got to expect a bit of scrutiny on your follow up. The now well known Scott Pilgrim comic series (further popularised...
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Book Review: ‘The Silo Trilogy’
By Hedge I’m a fan of a good dystopia. I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic media from films like Mad Max, and the recent, truly stunning These Final Hours, to novels like 1984 and The Hunger...
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Book Review: ‘Afterward’ by C. Aric Hanley
Disclaimer: The other of this novel is a member of the writing and creative team at House of Geekery. This review is not a promotion but intended to be singular perspective of the reviewer. So it’s the...
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My Top 10 Favorite Stephen King Novels (Part I)
Although I’d probably cite Pat Conroy as my favorite author, Stephen King runs a close second. He’s the author who’s most influenced my writing career. I’ve been enamored with the king of horror...
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My Top 10 Favorite Stephen King Novels: Part II
There’s not much sense in doing a preamble to the second part of an article and as a great horror writer once wrote, “Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn’t it?”...
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Tribute: Sir Terry Pratchett
This is a difficult one to write. Not only was Sir Pratchett a massive contributor to geek culture and very open in communicating with his fans, but his passing has long been foreshadowed. In the past...
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The Top 10 Characters from Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’
Yesterday we lost the legendarily prolific fantasy writer and satirist Sir Terry Pratchett. Luckily for us we have his characters, who exist beyond the stories he told having grown beyond the pages...
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#Clay5 Top 5 Round-Up 23rd March 2015
Yes, we’re a day late. Sometimes the life of a freelance blogger just gets that wild and crah-zeey. Ahem. This weeks Top 5s as voted by you! Remember to vote here: #clay5 twitter TOP 5 MOVIES FEATURING...
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Exclusive Interview with Kylie Chan!
Over the weekend, we at the House of Geekery had the pleasure of catching up with best selling author, Kylie Chan, for a chat about her books and her work as a writer. I caught her at a heap of her...
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10 Potential ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequels (That Are Totally Canon)
So after a long time I have finished reading The World of Ice and Fire. This not unsurprisingly dense tome provides an in-depth account of the world of Westeros from before written history to the...
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The Disney Literature Challenge
I’m in the middle of completing The Disney Challenge, which is when you watch all the official animated Disney films in order, I got to thinking that I wish I could read Disney films and voila! Here...
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The Geekery Guide: Who is Sir Terry Pratchett and What is the Discworld?
Anyone whose browsed the fantasy section of any bookshop in the past 30 years would have noticed dozens of titles carrying similar artwork and bearing the name ‘Terry Pratchett’ on the spine. You can’t...
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Book Review: ‘The Silo Trilogy’
By Hedge I’m a fan of a good dystopia. I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic media from films like Mad Max, and the recent, truly stunning These Final Hours, to novels like 1984 and The Hunger...
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Terry Pratchett Just Trolled Us From Beyond the Grave
We’ve talked about Sir Terry Pratchett here from time to time, such as this guide to the Discworld series, his 10 best characters and, sadly, a tribute following his departure from the mortal plane....
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Book Recommendation: Alanna the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Continuing our Perth Supanova coverage this year, I thought I’d drop in a quick book recommendation for one of the attending authors and one of my favourite writes of all time: Tamora Pierce! She was...
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Book Recommendation: In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
I’ve managed to go ahead and finish reading Tamora Pierce’s In the Hand of the Goddess in less than twenty four hours, squeezing reading time in at meal times and breaks at work… I read it so fast,...
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Book (Script?) Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’
There’s something entertaining about all the online meltdowns following the release of ‘The Cursed Child’. People flipped out when they got home, opened their newly purchased hardcovers and discovered...
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Book Review
We in the United States are now in the midst of the season of summer, as the days are longer, hotter, and filled with possibility. For many of us, we now find ourselves trapped inside our regular jobs...
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Watching the Franchises I Hate: The ‘Percy Jackson’ Series
If you didn’t catch my first foray into pointlessness, here’s Transformers. My interest in the Percy Jackson movie series at their time of release was…nonexistent. I hadn’t read the books and they...
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Best Horror Authors of the Twentieth Century
Horror has always been one of the most popular genres no matter which medium of entertainment there is. In the twentieth century readers were treated to an explosion in terror filling book shelves and...
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