by Alan Kistler | Jul 3, 2017 | Books
These days, it’s not unusual for movies, books and TV to reimagine the vampire myth into scientific or sci-fi terms. Marvel did it with Morbius, the “living vampire,” who was not an undead and cursed creature but a scientist whose experiments mutated...
by Alan Kistler | Jun 18, 2017 | Books, TV
This article doesn’t spoilers for the novel or TV show American Gods, other than the fact that these are characters you will meet. You already know that if you watch two of the commercials or have seen the many, many posters that have been posted for months and...
by Alan Kistler | Jun 18, 2017 | Books
During the 1970s, Charles Saunders wrote a series of stories featuring a warrior in a fictional land called Nyumbani that is not unlike Africa, a place where magic is very real. The hero, Imaro, was described by some as “a black Tarzan,” though...
by Alan Kistler | May 6, 2017 | Books
Sometimes you don’t want a vampire who longs for love and romance. Sometimes you don’t want a vampire who tries to find a normal life. Sometimes you want a story where a vampire knows exactly who they are and is ready to kill… as long as it’s...
by Alan Kistler | Apr 23, 2017 | Books, Film
Lords of the Sith, written by Paul S. Kemp, is part of the new wave of official, canon Star Wars media. This story begins a few years after the end of the Clone Wars and focuses on the relationship between Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine. With Star Wars, you have a...
by Alan Kistler | Apr 17, 2017 | Books
With Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll gave us a strange, contradictory, and child-like world that continues to parallel our own bizarre, contradictory and often childish world of real life. The stories have been...