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ATOMIC RUBBLE #6: Filters

by Adrienne Jones

So when a friend who worked in the environmental cleanup business told me about a particularly bone chilling job, I decided to investigate and write about it. I would explore the horror of reality, confident that I could handle the transition and blend these two passions into a unique and powerful article. It was a terrible mistake.

EDITORIAL DISPOSITIONS #6: Interview with Adrienne Jones, author of brine

by Jason Sizemore

An interview with brine author Adrienne Jones

ATOMIC RUBBLE #5: Butterscotch

by Adrienne Jones

In the past year I’ve read three women’s fiction novels about a gal who returns home for a family emergency only to discover the real problem is her own sheltered life, until a mysterious stranger awakens her spirit, and her vagina.

CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #5: Strange Books I Have Loved and (Not Quite) Known

by Lavie Tidhar

Books made of asbestos, money, and floppy disks.

EDITORIAL DISPOSITIONS #5: What’s the Game Plan?

by Jason Sizemore

A treatise on this website’s goals and dreams.

ATOMIC RUBBLE - Wooing the Alien

by Adrienne Jones

Geek love.

CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: #4 - The Horror of Horror: On Zombies, Ghosts, Deranged Killers and Mushrooms

by Lavie Tidhar

When will Horror come back? Why did it go away? Is there a Horror renaissance? What is Horror? Do you care about Horror as much as I do? No you don’t. Yes I do. No you don’t. Yeah? Yeah! You wanna take it outside? Let’s go!

EDITORIAL DISPOSITIONS: Writing Equals Spouse Hate?

by Jason Sizemore

Lovers beware!

ATOMIC RUBBLE: The Man in the Box

Adrienne Jones explores the dangers of sleep deprivation

CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: #3 - Hollywood Mutilations and the Forty-Five Degree Angle

It might be worth terming this The Hollywood Butcher School of Book Handling, and it has some illustrious graduates, premier amongst them, Angelina Jolie, who does a good job of murdering hapless books in Tomb Raider, another case of someone-who-should-really-know-better. Never mind. Let Hollywood murder its set props. Just leave the real books alone.

BEAUTY & DYNAMITE: Almost Back

We’re delighted to bring you the latest of Alethea’s popular quarterly Apex Digest column via the magic of digital bits.

ATOMIC RUBBLE: A Real Boy

by Adrienne Jones

Despite the planet’s overpopulation and cornucopia of differing cultures and races, we’re just freaking bored with ourselves. If it were merely about creating life, we’d all have babies and be satisfied. But no, we want talking dolls, regardless of their potential to pick up a knife and skitter around in homicidal glee.

CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: #2 - How Philip Pullman Paid My Way Through Uni

What I did not expect to see was the almost perfect first edition of The Subtle Knife sitting demurely on the shelf, sandwiched between Dick Francis and Jilly Cooper in an unholy manage-a-trois.

THE BRIT’S BITS: A Day in the Life

Afraid of bombs? Not Gill Ainsworth.

EDITORIAL DISPOSITIONS: Interview with Magda Apanowicz

An interview with Magda Apanowicz, co-star of Kyle XY, and the upcoming Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica.

ATOMIC RUBBLE: Has Satan Gone Out of Style?

Adrienne Jones explores the lack of enthusiasm for Satan in today’s horror fiction.

CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: The Titanic Omar

Have you heard the one about the priceless book that went down with the Titanic? It’s a story book collectors tell, or at least I’d like to think they do. Once there was a priceless book and it sank with the Titanic, and it is under all that water still… I suspect any serious book collector would have given up his place in the life-boats to get hold of that book. If it exists.