with foreward by Joe Vaz

Publisher: Short, Scary Tales Publications
ISBN: 978-1-909640-54-2,
Hardcover, First Edition, 7.5 x 9.25 inches, 86 pages, £21.95
Available from: Amazon,

The Damage Museum is the first book that features the art of Vincent Sammy, a freelance illustrator who hails from South Africa and specializes in horror, science fiction and the macabre.

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review by Joe Vaz

Hardcover: 609 pages
Published by Sceptre
Available from: Amazon,

I’ve spent the last few days in Port Edward, KwaZulu Natal on a film shoot, but in reality I’ve spent it in the heads of Crispin Hershey, Holly Sykes, Dr. Iris Fenby, Hugo Lamb, and Ed Brubeck. Or to put it more aptly, in the worlds and words of David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks

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review by Joe Vaz

Hardcover: 352 pages
Published by Macmillan
Available from: Amazon,

THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE SAFE …The Sanctum is a luxurious, self-sustaining survival condominium situated underground. It’s a plush bolt-hole for the rich and paranoid – a place where they can wait out the apocalypse in style. When a devastating super-flu virus hits, several families race to reach The Sanctum.

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On the 29th of April, Joe sat down in conversation with John Connolly at the launch of his latest Charlie Parker book, A Song of Shadows.

The awesome people at The Book Lounge have put up a podcast of the event on their website.

Click here to have a listen to the hour-long launch.

http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/podcasts/audio/20150529_Launch_of_A_Song_of_Shadows-John_Connolly_Final.mp3

review by Joe Vaz

Hardcover: 112 pages
Published by 2000AD
Available from: Amazon, 2000AD Online

In October of 2014, 2000 AD began reprinting the individual books of Morrison and Yeowell’s breakthrough superhero series, Zenith, about the vain, self-obsessed, egotistical pop singer “superbrat” whose only interests are girls, partying, and where he is in the music charts.

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Don’t miss John Connolly’s launch for the new Charlie Parker thriller, a Song of Shadows, at The Book Lounge on 29th April.
John will be conversation with Joe.

review by Joe Vaz

eBook 250 pages
Available in digital from: Amazon

Idea War Vol One introduces us to a team of young rebels, fighting against an autocratic government that, in a not-too-distant future, has taken over the control of South Africa.

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by Joe Vaz

I arrived late to the game, only picking up The Colour of Magic in 1989, I think. It was soon followed by Light Fantastic and Equal Rites and so on and so forth.

Over the last twenty six years a Discworld novel has been my companion across a myriad of significant memories.

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review by Joe Vaz

PB 100 pages
Available in print from: Diamond (OCT141616) and UK
newsagents
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop, 2000 AD iPad app

There’s a reason why 2000AD is still the greatest comic around, three decades after it’s launch. There are many reasons, actually, great characters, astounding art, riveting story lines and never-ending weekly thrills.

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review by Joe Vaz

Published by Orbit
PB 512 pages
RRP £8.99

You have no idea what to make of this.
You meet Lieutenant “Lucky” Quinto as he leads a platoon to uncover a cache of military weapons hidden ages ago beneath the ground in an abandoned mine. It seems as though you’re reading a piece of military SF. You’re in Starship Troopers territory, or that’s what you assume: army guys battle aliens.

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