Cannonball Read 17

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My little piggy needed something new.

Pearl by Josh Malerman

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“Sing for me, Brother Jeff. Sing for Pearl.” There is something unsettling about Walter Kopple’s farm out on Murdock Road. Something that makes you drive a little faster when going past, that makes you feel a bit like you walked through cobwebs. Jeff and Aaron don’t like visiting their grandfather’s farm because of the way it feels. They know, as does everyone, something is wrong at the farm. Something is wrong with the pigs and the large male who lords over them, Pearl. Pearl with […]

Let’s go caving with a-holes.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

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On the mining colony world Cassandra V, 22-year-old Gyre Price lies on her qualifications in order to take a dangerous, high-paying job to explore a cave. She is desperate for the money so she can buy her way off-world to locate the mother who abandoned her years before. Her only companion is a voice in her head from her top-side handler, Em. Gyre is fitted into a high-tech suit and has surgery to re-route her bodily functions so that she never needs to remove her […]

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

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Joe Tournier is an amnesiac living in the French colony of England in 1898. His first memory is of stepping off a train platform in London after arriving from Glasgow with no memory of who he is. He has recurring and fleeting memories of a woman named Madeline, a lighthouse, a man on a beach, and a sense that something is wrong. He is taken to an asylum and a doctor diagnoses him with a rare form of epilepsy, one that has afflicted hundreds of […]

The greatest Alien movie never made.

Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson by Pat Cadigan

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Alien3 had a long, strange trip before it made it to screens in 1992, fully six years after the critical and box office smash Aliens made writer/director James Cameron a household name. During that time more than twenty scripts were considered at one time or another for the follow up. Before work began the only consideration was that series heroine Ellen Ripley, played perfectly by Sigourney Weaver, would be sitting this one out. Weaver had expressed fatigue with the series and did not think there […]

From Jamaica with Crocodiles

The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die by Roger Moore

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As part of his contract when taking over the role of James Bond from Sean Connery (and George Lazenby), Roger Moore was asked to keep a diary of the experience filming his first Bond picture, Live and Let Die. Based on the novel by Ian Fleming, the story finds Bond trying to take down a ruthless heroin smuggler named Mr. Big, played by Yaphet Kotto. Jane Seymour is the love interest, Solitaire, and the movie has a number of stunts that rank it among the […]

Take a diabolical voyage on the high seas!

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

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The year is 1634, and the United East India Company is the wealthiest, and most powerful, trade company in the world. The most profitable spice route is between Batavia (modern-day Jakarta) and the Company headquarters in Amsterdam where the ruling board of the Company, the Gentlemen 17, place profit over all other considerations. This route takes eight months to cross and is perilous and arduous. In Batavia, the massive cargo-passenger ship Saardam is about to set sail for Amsterdam with a mysterious cargo, along with […]



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