Tag: Espionage

I guess if you're a gilr who can move sh*t with your mind, there's bound to be random sh* flying through the air...

Now that summer is winding down a bit, it's time to start stocking up for winter reading - or - you're TBR pile is just not tall enough!

Filled with airships, dragons, zombies, robots, and a wide array of other gear driven inventions, Lincoln’s Wizard is a fresh Steampunk take on the War Between the States.

Beautiful Intelligence is a bracingly imaginative novel. By choosing to operate within a realistic, post-crash, dystopian cyberpunkish framework Stephen Palmer has written his most accessible and commercial work to-date.

The latest Retrieval Artist novel - Starbase Human - will throw you some curves.

Peacekeepers launches a Webby nominated pilot

The Real is a parallel world in which the Second World War never happened, where Alan Turing emigrated to America in the 1950’s and laid the foundations for the development of Turing Gates. By 1968 the CIG was beginning to use the Gates to secretly explore parallel worlds. ... There is a lot of plot in Cowboy Angels. There is also a lot of Bourne-movie style action. McAuley builds the suspense well and the set-pieces are effectively conceived.

Rusch pulls off another taught thriller with A Murder of Clones.

Steve revisits a favourite--classic--"spy spoof" from the '60s. Many people loved these James Coburn films!

Eric Brown takes us on steampunk adventure through India at the time of the Raj. The year is 1925, and history has taken an alternate course.

A review of La Femme, Noir's companion anthology

A review of Bank's Inversion.

With its haunting portrayal of the unthinkable, Fatherland sired (ha ha...) the alternate history sub-genre one might call: "What if ... the Nazis won?"

Gary Dalkin reviews Cloud Atlas and Skyfall and talks about the homogenization of American cinema.

Secret agent tales have always carried a hint of science fiction with them - futuristic gadgets, threatened world-wide annihilation. Steve examines Bond's 60s rival - Flint - and reminds us that James Coburn was COOL.

Introducing Modesty Blaise....

Papers, Please, a game by Lucas Pope for PC and Mac, endeavors to be boring. You'll spend your hours as a border guard in 1982 Russia analogue Arstotzka, checking and double checking papers...

If spy fiction uses SF/F techniques, then why doesn't speculative fiction feature more espionage? Perhaps SF/F’s world-building is too much of a good thing, preventing the genre from leveraging tension the way spy fiction does.

Growing up in a household where the legacy of Communism loomed large (my parents had fled Communist Poland during the '60s), poison-tipped umbrellas and...

Hello and welcome to August! I was away for much of July on a "blogging vacation", and I very much missed you and our...

Will you stand for something? Or settle for anything?

The Spear of Destiny Jason E. Thummel paperback $12.95 ebook $2.99 Kindle Nook Smashwords Jason E. Thummel is the author of a number of well received heroic fantasy...

The publication of comics has drastically changed in the past 5 years.  As scores of e-reader devices hit the market to facilitate the millions...

If there's a recently popularized term that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, it's "webisodes."  This demeaning and fun-sized determination of quality stems...