Reviews

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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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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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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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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review by Joe Vaz

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
HB 481 pages
RRP £14.99

I first became interested in South Africa’s genre fiction scene when I started Something Wicked in July 2006.

To grow interest in the magazine, we launched with a competition. One of the entries we received came from an unknown author named Sarah Lotz; her story, “The Perfect Man”, went on to win.

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review by Deon van Heerden

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd PB 752 pages RRP £9.00 (Kindle £9.99)

When I heard that Stephen King was releasing a time-travel novel, I found myself excited and apprehensive in equal measure; time-travel novels are pretty much the multi-disc concept albums of the literary world, and even the finest authors can easily stumble and embarrass themselves when traversing this uneven, but well-trod, ground. And yet, somehow, 11/22/63 manages to be almost impossibly good, a historical-fantasy-thriller-romance novel, which excels at every one of these.

From Issue 19 (Mar 2012)
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review by Deon van Heerden

Published by Rebellion/2000AD
PB 192 pages
RRP £17.99

Originally published in 2000 AD during the late 1990s, the complete Mazeworld saga is brought together here in one, beautifully presented volume. The author, Alan Grant, and illustrator, Arthur Ranson, are, of course, familiar to comic book and graphic novel aficionados, and their names alone should be enough to get you to hand over your money without hesitation. If, however, you feel you need further convincing, read on.

From Issue 18 (Feb 2012)
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