This post is Dark Matter Zine‘s March in review: items received, news, interviews, guest blogs, reviews… categories of posts are grouped together with individual links to help you find all the things. Cheers.
Items received
In the interests of disclosure, here’s a photo of “real” items received in the month of March. This photo doesn’t include ebooks or media passes to see movies because, sadly, THEY’RE INVISIBLE.
This photo shows:
- All the Tripod goodness because TRIPOD IS AWESOME. I’m thinking this is the perfect Easter Break lineup:
- Songs from Self Saucing
- Tripod versus the Dragon (in both CD and DVD format)
- Tripod tell the tale of Tosswinkle the Pirate
- Ascendance and Resistance by John Birmingham (books 2 and 3 of a trilogy featuring monsters attacking Earth. And dragons taking down Air Force One)
- Boy Who Could See Death (The) by Salley Vickers (collection of short stories, universally well-written so far — I’m nearly half-way through)
- Custard Protocol Book One: Prudence by Gail Carriger (Prudence Akeldama is all grown up; with parents like hers, she’ll bring a dirigible full of trouble! It arrived yesterday and I’m 1/3 of the way through. What homework? Forget the homework.)
- My Sunshine Away by M O Walsh (a mystery set in Southern suburbia blurbed by Anne Rice)
- Positive by David Wellington (zombie goodness for CJ)
- Sin Eater’s Daughter (The) by Melina Salisbury (a gorgeous cover; my phone photo doesn’t do it justice. Billed as romance and intrigue for ages 12 +)
- Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver (I’ve enjoyed every book of Lauren’s that I’ve read but this one might be fore CJ — it’s a psychological thriller. I have sufficient adrenaline coursing through my veins while trying to meet deadlines with full-time study and Dark Matter Zine without a reading book that comes with the instruction to “Read it with all the lights on”, according to E Lockhart)
- Weightless by Sarah Bannan (Prep meets the Virgin Suicides, according to the publisher)
News, events, articles and essays
- 2015-02: February in review
- Change.org petition for Death to bring back Terry Pratchett
- Confessions of a Recovering WoW Addict – Off the Wagon
- Confessions of a Recovering WoW Addict — Level 90–100
- Confessions of a Recovering WoW Addict — Nesing-where is ‘e?
- Confessions of a Recovering WoW Addict — There’s a Glyph for That
- Death has visited Discworld one final time: RIP Sir Terry Pratchett
- Norma K Hemming Award shortlisht 2015
- Too cool for school: dystopia readings
- Too cool for school: fairy tales
- The Village Genius
Competitions
- Giveaway: 3 copies of A Dance With Dragons Part I
- Giveaway: 3 copies of The Last Quarrel by Duncan Lay
- Closed: Manny Lewis double passes
- Closed: Shaun the Sheep prize packs
Interviews, panels and guest blogs
- Amanda Bridgeman: The Anatomy of a Heroine
- Cost Of Building a Millennium Falcon – Infographic
- Joe Abercrombie (2015)
- Tripod: This Gaming Life
Book reviews
- Awesome (The) by Eva Darrows
- Court of Thorns (A) and Roses by Sarah J Maas
- Dark Alchemy by Laura Bickle
- Darwin Elevator (The) by Jason M Hough
- First Kingdom: The Birth Of Tundran
- Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
- Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh
- Possessed by Niki Valentine
- Raven’s Head by Karen Maitland
- Robot Overlords by Mark Stay (novel)
- Rogue Wave by Jennifer Donnelly
- Suckers by Z Rider
- Tithe: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black
- Winter Bride (The) by Anne Gracie
Game reviews
Movie reviews
- Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
- Black Sea (2014)
- Cinderella (2015)
- Focus (2015)
- Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1
- Insurgent (2015)
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
- Manny Lewis (2014)
- Predestination (2014)
- Star Wars: Fixed
