Monthly Archives: May 2023

13 Mini Reviews of Movies From 2023

Cocaine Bear (2023). Watch this with a group of friends, preferably intoxicated, because if you watch this by yourself you will inevitably wonder what you are doing with your life watching this. The film doesn’t amount to much but could … Continue reading

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Manga Review: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982-95) by Hayao Miyazaki. An ecological SF epic to rival Dune.

The manga of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a massive achievement in storytelling by a single author and artist, and it is one of the best epic fantasy/SF stories I have ever read, comic or otherwise.  Set … Continue reading

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Steven Erikson – The God is Not Willing (2021) Review

9/10 A fantastic title, wouldn’t you say? The God is Not Willing’s first objective is to make the reader get used to the idea that we are in fact back in the Malazan universe, and that the world has changed. … Continue reading

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Voltaire – Micromegas (1752) Review

What’s this, a story from 1752? Jeroen, why do you have to be so boring and intellectual? Why do you only read stuffy books from the attic? Why can’t you be more hip? I know you all want me to … Continue reading

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Haruki Murakami – 1Q84, Book One (2009) Review

8/10 This is not an easy book to put in a box. Murakami wrote a kind of science fiction novel in which two main characters end up in a slightly alternate version of reality. It’s a form of slipstream fiction … Continue reading

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