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Tasteless, beautiful, overblown, understated, vibrant, decaying genius. Brilliant stuff. I am constantly advised by psychometric tests to be a journalist and if that meant being Spider Jerusalem, I'd be on that course already. Any other thoughts?

A strip whose introduction coincided with the first prog I decided to purchase, Caballistics, Inc. has been a staunch favourite throughout the last couple of years, bested perhaps only by the incomparable Asylum. The hybrid of Lovecraftian gothic horror with wry humour and the numerous...

Well, for Christmas this year, in typically festive mode, my parents bought me... Nazi propaganda! Yes, that's right, Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally was underneath the tree, and it really is quite impressive. The cinematography (one of the opening scenes features a...

Warren Ellis' latest production, and there is little better way to describe it than the blurb's own hyperbole; "both a psychological mystery and a sweeping science fiction story." Brilliant, though it feels perhaps a little rushed towards the end. Anyone else read it?

Guess who's just got a copy of Paranoia XP... Paranoia is a really quite ancient tabletop RPG, recently revamped. Only it's an RPG with a difference. Stuff the fantasy, it's sci-fi slapstick satire, with mutant commie traitors and insane AI governing post-holocaust hive cities. The rulebook...

I've ranted about this graphic novel, the sublime genius that is Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece, several times since I joined this forum but have yet to hear much of it from anyone else. I wondered if anyone else had read it (or indeed seen the film), and what they thought of it? Essentially a...

I have just read this book within the course of a single day (revision periods between exams are so very dull), having been drawn to it by the several cryptic quotations taken from it found in Deus Ex (a PC game, for those who are unaware.) What can I say? Bizarre, surreal and absolutely...

The brief was to write a short story with limited scope-perhaps just a conversation or an utterly unimportant scene in someone's life. So, naturally, I write a piece that spans the entirety of human history and then some, and isn't even really a story, but more a collection of images. Anyway...

I'm hunting for some recommendations in the market of intelligent, clever sci-fi, in the vein of Asimov's 'Foundation' series, Ursula le Guin's 'The Dispossessed,' Evgenii Zamyatin's 'We' et al. So, suggestions?

Name Alistair, age 15, location Sheffield UK, interests reading, writing and gaming, favourite books Brave New World, The Silmarillion, Crime and Punishment, came here because few of my peers read at all and I wished to discuss literature with someone other than my English lit teacher, hello.