The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

Run, Rabbit, Run (Review: Sixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon

Sixty-One Nails Mike Shevdon Angry Robot 2009 "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy." While it was Shakespeare who penned that line, it seems to have been adopted as an unofficial motto by the world of urban fantasy authors. Secret worlds lurking…

Singing in the Dead of Night (Review: Blackbirds; Chuck Wendig)

Blackbirds
Chuck Wendig
Angry Robot 2012

Imagine you could see the future. Every event about to unfold around you in a crystal-clear vision. You know every single disaster which is going to affect humanity. Every war, every famine, every plane crash. You try to tell people, to save them, but no-one li…