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I've recently picked up the core GURPS books as I got so sick of D&D 4e, it lost all of its character and substance to make it streamlined and easier for new players. Also I didn't like the way they tried to nickel and dime folks by only laying out a threadbare list of races and classes in the...

The Dreaded Hood Behind this mask, no one knows my identity. Plenty have ideas, but when you've just dropped a corpse onto a dining table surrounded by nobility no one really cares who you really are. I often wondered what would happen were I caught and my real face plastered across the land...

I'm surprised I have seen no mention of this book here yet so I thought I'd come ask if anyone else has read it. It is a graphic novel series written by Joe Hill (Heart Shaped Box) and centres around a family who's father is murdered at the beginning of the book. The family, move in with their...

The Superman anti-smoking ad had more of an effect on me as kid than the NBS ad did, I actually took a pack of my Dad's cigarettes and crushed them like in the ad. He was not best pleased with me. The NBS just terrified me. It didn't even stop me from smoking when I got older, either. Mind...

I remember this ad scared me s***less when I was little, I could go up stairs at night due to the light shining through the bannisters reminding me of the ad and I had nightmares about it for years after. It took me a long time to actually find the ad and other people who had heard of it, and I...

I've just remembered another giant tome I have in my possession, George R.R Martin's Dreamsongs, which weighs in at 1200 pages and is heavy enough to kill a small child if were to fall on them. Thinking about all these behemoths I own, it doesn't seem much of a suprise that my last bookshelf...

I have the Necronomicon and Conan books as well as the hardback edition of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which are the largest fiction hardbacks I own. I also have the Sword of Shanara omnibus which is so thick I don't I'll ever actually be able to read as it's uncomfortable to hold.

I'm currently reading Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore. It's his first)and only, I think) proper novel and whilst the majority of the novel is written normally, the first chapter, Hob's Hog, is written in the first person of a mentally challenged Neanderthal boy who cannot differentiate between...

There's the novel Millennium by John Varley, which I read many years ago and found fascinating. It goes on about paradox at length and the tale is based around fixing a paradox created after a futuristic weapon is lost in the present whilst kidnapping people from an imminent plane crash. It was...

I've not read any of his Warhammer stuff but I remember him writing Death's Head II with Andy Lanning for Marvel UK back in the early 90s which was probably the best things the UK outfit produced in that time period. I've never read any of his WH40K stuff as I'm not a big fan on war fiction. It...

Re: Dear Neil Gaiman, please stop letting people make films out of your books. Thank Just a point about the BBC messing with Neverwhere. The series came before the book so therefore it was Gaiman changing things rather than the other way around. As for the adaptions, I've not seen anything...

I've just recievedmy hardback edition of the collection and have to say it really was superb. It took the idea what it would be to become a real life superhero and turned it into a fun and exciting book. I'm really hoping there's more Kick-Ass to come and I'm looking forwards to the movie...

Planet Terror I'd held out for it to show on tv but had to give in and buy it as it looked like it was a no show. I'm glad I did buy it, though, as I thought it was awesome! Just a cheesy, gorey, stylish zombie movie with it's tongue firmly in it's cheek. I loved it.

I have only willingly parted with a single book that has come into my possession in my entire life, a biography of G.W Bush I was sent as a book club freebie. I have got books that have survived several bouts of homelessness and comics I have had for up to 25 years. If I had had a choice I...

I rather quite like the movie. I've seen it a half dozen times and whilst it's got it's flaws it's an enjoyable and humourous satire. But then I don't think I've disliked anything that I've seen by Mike Judge

The roleplaying system Shadowrun has a simliar theme. It's a cyberpunk setting but with magic and orcs, elves, trolls, dwarves, etc. I do believe there are several books based in this universe as well.

As I'm working on a superhero story at the moment, it's got me to wondering what none comic-book/Graphic novel stories about superheroes there are out there. Off the top of my head I know of only the Wild Cards series but I'm interested in finding out what other fiction of this kind exists.

I'm not sure if there any compilations of the stories out there but I'd suggest getting hold of Metal Hurlant, known as Heavy Metal in English. It's an anthology magazine that's been around since the 70s, if I remember correctly, featuring highly influential sci-fi and fantasy art and stories.

I try to be a day writer, and when I first began, I would happily beaver away during the day. But as my sleeping patterns have changed I've become very much a night writer. often times getting up with the urge to put words on the page at ungodly hours of the night and tapping away until daybreak.

This seems like the best place to ask this. To date, I have read but 3 of Mr Moore's works (V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Lost Girls) and love them greatly and wish to read more, however, I really have no idea where to start on the rest of his work. I was wondering what people's general...