Review: Nick Mamatas, Sensation
In his 2004 debut novel, Move Under Ground, Nick Mamatas handled what could have been a gimmicky premise—a fight for the soul of America between H.P. Lovecraft’s evil chaos god Cthulhu and a ragtag...
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Harry Potter live chat
Earlier today, I met with fans of the Harry Potter series for a live chat on MSNBC.com to discuss the final movie, the differences between the books and the films, and the future of the series. The...
View ArticleReview: Lawrence Block, Getting Off
New York writer Lawrence Block is best-known these days as a master of hardboiled crime fiction, with a diverse collection of noir series characters, including alcoholic gumshoe Matt Scudder, charming...
View ArticleReview: Terry Pratchett, Snuff
British fantasy author Terry Pratchett has spent nearly his entire career writing about the Discworld, a pancake-shaped land carried on the back of a giant cosmic turtle. Over the decades, his...
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TV Club Doctor Who: 24: City of Death
“City Of Death” (season 17, episodes 5-8. Originally aired Sept. 29-Oct. 20, 1979) Today’s stop on our nonchronological journey through Doctor Who brings us to somewhere close to the end of the second...
View ArticleInterview: Dylan Hicks
Dylan Hicks first made his name in the 1990s as a musician, writing a bushelful of witty, sharply observant songs on his albums Won, Poughkeepsie, and Alive With Pleasure. And although he’s reinvented...
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TV Club: Doctor Who, “Destiny Of The Daleks”
“Destiny Of The Daleks” (season 17, episodes 1-4. Originally aired Sept. 1-22, 1979) Just going by pedigree of the writers involved, “Destiny Of The Daleks” should be a lot better than it is. It marked...
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Review: Gareth Roberts/Douglas Adams, Shada
Charles Dickens has The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. Bruce Lee has Game Of Death. And for Doctor Who and Douglas Adams, the great unfinished story is Shada. A six-part serial scripted by the Hitchhikers’...
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Review: Stephen Baxter, The Wheel Of Ice
Usually, fans have to be wildly optimistic, if not delusional, to expect quality literature from a line of authorized tie-in novels to a science-fiction TV series. But in recent years, the editors...
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TV Club, Doctor Who, Shada
“Shada” (season 17, episodes 21-26. Filmed in 1979; never aired.) In 1979, Douglas Adams, then script editor for Doctor Who, wrote a story for the show in which the villain disastrously shatters into...
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