Philip Sandifer is the creator and writer of Philipsandifer.com, an expansive grouping of sites including The TARDIS Eruditorum, a blog featuring critical essays examining Doctor Who as a cultural phenomenon, which he’s adapted to a …
Countdown City, the second novel in The Last Policeman trilogy, shows no signs of middle-book sag. If anything, it is even more gripping than the first. The countdown to the asteroid strike has continued. When …
The Last Policeman by Ben Winters is a combination of noir detective fiction and apocalyptic science fiction. It is also excellent. The world is coming to an end in six months. An asteroid is on …
“round here, it’s ALWAYS the night shift.” Welcome to Dream Police, a world where your dreamscape is kept safe by Joe Thursday, a taciturn, trench-coated figure, unimpressed by even the strangest events, and his partner, …
Eternal Warrior #8 demonstrates that, when it comes right down to it, Gilad makes a much better fighter than he does a philosopher. Here, again, he is continuing his somewhat creepy habit of turning to …
Rai is another Valiant must-read. Rai‘s setting, its narrators, and the beginning premise are all attention-grabbers. The setting is far-future Japan ( 4001 A.D.), and Crain and Kindt have worked to design a future Japan, …
Black Science #6, the last in volume one of the series, continues to deliver the unexpected and the unusual Just when everyone is ready to thoroughly despise Kadir, Remander switches the viewpoint–and without any prior …
Battlestar Galactica #10 “The Adama Gambit” picks up right after “Dreams of the Thirteenth.” Remember when I said the end of “Dreams” was a letdown unless there was followup? This is the followup. As Battlestar …
Steed and Mrs. Peel (the other Avengers) face John Cartney and his family once more in Steed and Mrs. Peel vol. 3. Cartney still wants revenge for the events in the Hellfire Club, and he …