By Roisin O'Shea
From Westeros to Middle-Earth, Earthsea to Narnia, fantasy authors know how to build a world that will invite us in and make us never want to leave. But how well do you really know your favourite worlds?
MOREPOSTED ON: June 26, 2015
FILED UNDER: Friday Favourites
TAGS: Dinosaurs
By Hodderscape Team
When the sun comes out and the heat is on, you lock yourself indoors and spend some quality time with dragons, dinosaurs and aliens.
MOREPOSTED ON: June 25, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction
By Oliver Johnson
Few science fiction writers have divided opinion so widely as Robert A. Heinlein. Along with Asimov and Clarke, he was one of the trio of Golden Age authors who in the 40s took the genre out of the pulp arena into one of literary high seriousness. Of the trio, many see Heinlein as the most influential as his novels about future worlds were free of jargon and written in a colloquially familiar manner. Of this three-way pantheon, Heinlein stands as the ‘dean of science fiction’ probably because of the prescriptive nature of much of his writing from the middle period onwards, in which father figures take the heroes of each book in hand and guide their spiritual and political evolution.
MOREPOSTED ON: June 24, 2015
FILED UNDER: Competition
TAGS: Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction
By Fleur Clarke
We’re proud as punch to be re-issuing Robert A. Heinlein’s classic science fiction novels with fancy new jackets, and we’re celebrating with a giveaway.
MOREPOSTED ON: June 23, 2015
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Animals, Rebecca Levene
By Catherine Sullivan
Great novels inspire great cosplay. And the best novels inspire the cutest cosplay. Today we’re delighted to share with you the very best of the cute-best: guest blogger Catherine’s instructions for turning a dog into Rii, the wonderful bat-like monster from Rebecca Levene’s Smiler’s Fair and The Hunter’s Kind!
Warning! This post contains the cutest dog-dressed-as-a-giant-batlike-monster pictures you’ve ever seen.
MOREPOSTED ON: June 19, 2015
FILED UNDER: Friday Favourites
TAGS: Scott K. Andrews
By Team Hodderscape
We all wish we could go travelling through time (read: hang out with cool dinosaurs), but unfortunately time travel is but a dream. Luckily, we do have the next best thing: books. Yesterday we published the first book in Scott K. Andrews’ time travel trilogy, TimeBomb, in paperback. So for this week’s Friday Favourites we’re getting into the time travel spirit and sharing our favourite time travel stories.
MOREBy Anne Perry
What would it be like to date Ian Malcolm? Doc Ock? Dana Scully? Who’s a great hugger? Who has a worrying obsession with genius sharks? We’ve assembled the most comprehensive database of dateable movie scientists ever yet committed to the internet. Read on to discover the answers to these questions… and many more.
MOREBy Oliver Johnson
Editor Oliver Johnson published Jurassic Park at the very beginning of his career. Today he looks back at the publication of one of the biggest-selling books of the 1990s, and the incredible London premiere of the 1993 film.
MOREPOSTED ON: June 15, 2015
FILED UNDER: Film
TAGS: Dinosaurs, Film Review
By Sharan Matharu
Jurassic World was everything I could have wanted and more. Not to say that it was perfect, but it was pretty close. When I first heard there was going to be a fourth movie in the Jurassic Park universe I thought that it couldn’t possibly get any worse, the third film well and truly killed my hopes for the movies. But I also knew that nothing could keep me from going to see this film – literally, nothing.
MOREPOSTED ON: June 12, 2015
FILED UNDER: Film, Friday Favourites
TAGS: Dinosaurs
By Hodderscape Team
Jurassic World is finally here! If you’re at all familiar with the contents of this blog you’ll know that we’ll probably collectively watch it at least 100 times. But, until then, we’re taking a look back at where it all began and sharing our favourite moments from Jurassic Park.
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