By Peter Lin, on January 5th, 2011 One of several things to look forward to at the Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention 2010 (STGCC) was the launch of Gone Case: A Graphic Novel Book 1. Based on the 1996 award-winning novel by Dave Chua, this is the first of two books, the second of which will hopefully be ready before the [...]
By Melvin Yong, on December 6th, 2010 Shopping for a fellow geek is always fun cos you usually end up looking at tons of stuff you like and with Christmas less than a month away, I figured I’ll do a little review on something I received last month. The massive DC Vault was an early Christmas gift from a close friend, [...]
By kakita, on October 26th, 2010 Behemoth is the second book in an alternate history trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. Continuing from his first book Leviathan, Behemoth follows the main characters Aleksander and Deryn back into the world of diesel powered war machines and giant monstrosities.
Keeping the spoilers to a minimum, Behemoth has our duo enter the Ottoman capital of Istanbul. [...]
By kakita, on October 19th, 2010 A lot of Steampunk fiction is primarily alternate history, and Scott Westerfeld’s series is no exception. Set in 1914 Europe, Leviathan and Behemoth (the first two of a trilogy) follows the exploits of Aleksander Ferdinand, dispossessed heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne, and Deryn Sharp, a British girl who hides her gender in order to [...]
By Peter Lin, on September 6th, 2010 It’s difficult to start an article like this because one automatically gets drawn into one or more perennial arguments that savage geek fiction, Singapore fiction or both. In fact, this article was so difficult to write it took almost three months between creating the post and then getting around to actually writing it.
But let’s [...]
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