a review by Nalini Haynes The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo by Adam Roberts parodies the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Helltrik Vagner is an …
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
a review by Nalini Haynes Surface Detail begins with Lededje hiding from Veppers, her owner, who finds and subsequently murders her. Lededje awakens to find …
Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
a review by Nalini Haynes The Heroes opens with Curnden Craw, a leader of a small band of fighters, taking the Heroes from another band …
Lost Thing Collector’s Edition
a review by Nalini Haynes Author: Shaun Tan Presenter: Passion Pictures Aust Distributor: Madman The observant and loyal reader will notice that I reviewed The …
Ben 10 Ultimate Alien
a review by Nalini Haynes Created by Man of Action Ben Tennyson, AKA Ben 10, is a 16 year old with a cousin, Gwen, who …
Xam’D: Lost Memories
a review by Nalini Haynes Director: Masayuki Miyaji Creator: Studio Bones Distributor: Madman Release date: English 2010 Xam’D focuses on Akiyuki, a teenage boy, on …
Feeling Blue… Cosplay in Melbourne
by Nalini Haynes A long time ago, a galaxy far, far away came to Melbourne Scienceworks. (Cue Star Wars theme music.) April Staines and some …
Last Chance to See: In the footsteps of Douglas Adams
a review by Nalini Haynes Last Chance to See is an ecological documentary starring Stephen Fry. In the late 1980s, Douglas Adams travelled the globe …
Banksy
by Nalini Haynes Who is Banksy? This is the big question on everyone’s lips. Banksy is a street artist or vandal depending on your point …
Buffy – without Joss???
by Nalini Haynes Breaking news – Warner Bros is making a Buffy movie reboot, without Joss Whedon. Joss says, ‘This is a sad, sad reflection …
Alan White: Letter of Comment
Greetings; Enjoyed the first issue of Dark Matter. Good luck with it. Should you ever need a fillo to pop in a hole somewhere, please …
April Storm: Letter of Comment
Great work Nalini, There is a lot of content here, pretty awesome for a first issue.. I see that Star walking had a bit of …
Cathy Palmer-Lister: Letter of Comment
I enjoyed browsing through your zine. The article on the artist, Marshal Bell, was especially interesting. Cathy Palmer-Lister, WARP editor, MonSFFA Thanks Cathy. MonSFFA is …
Jonathan Cowie: Letter of Comment
Greetings This is to both our existing team of news providers to the Concatenation site (from whom we are always delighted to hear) as well …
Chris Garcia: Letter of Comment
It’s always good to read the first issue of a new zine and I think Dark Matter makes a wonderful first impression with that lovely …