By Marty Mulrooney
Jess Smart Smiley is a graphic designer, illustrator, author and graphic novelist living in the US state of Utah. His first graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale, was published by Top Shelf Productions in October 2012. AMO has wanted to feature this multi-talented individual for quite some time and is therefore proud to present an exclusive online interview with Jess Smart Smiley!
Filed under Alternative Musings, Books
By Jamie Downes (Guest Writer)
The first in a two-part collaborative effort between Terry Pratchett (the Discworld series) and Stephen Baxter (the Xeelee Sequence series), The Long Earth is a novel named after the seemingly infinite number of parallel worlds at its heart, worlds that become traversable by most humans with the invention of a simple homemade device.
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By Marty Mulrooney
Anomaly is a gigantic 368-page hardback science fiction graphic novel written by Skip Brittenham and Brian Haberlin, with art by Skip Haberlin and Geirrod Van Dyke. Touted as ‘the longest original full-colour graphic novel ever published’ and printed ‘using a ground-breaking wide gamut process which allows greater detail and colour range than conventional printing processes’, Anomaly also features ‘augmented reality’ pages that come to life in 3D via the camera and screen of any compatible device (such as an iPhone or iPad).
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By Marty Mulrooney
Seconds Away is the follow-up to the 2011 novel Shelter by Harlan Coben (Tell No One). Written for young adults but still accessible to older readers too – the main protagonist of both books is Mickey Bolitar, nephew of former basketball player turned sports agent Myron Bolitar, whom many of Coben’s regular fans will be familiar with – this highly anticipated sequel delves deeper still into the world of the mysterious Abeona Shelter, as three unlikely teenage heroes try to solve an ongoing murder investigation and hunt down the Butcher of Lodz…
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Martin Mulrooney
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