Come one, come all! It’s that magical time once more! It’s election season!! There’s about 20-odd Presidential elections and nearly 40 general (national elections set to take place around the world this year – 2024. (That’s of course not to even try and count the elections of various types from Mayors to MLA’s to Alderman…
Category: Food For Thought
Giantess: The Story of the Girl Who Traveled the World in Search of Freedom [Magnetic Press/Neurobellum, 2023]
Giantess: The Story of the Girl Who Traveled the World in Search of Freedom by Jean-Christophe Deveney & Núria Tanarit I stumbled across this on one of my rare meanders through Kickstarter and something struck me in it so I contributed. For my support, I got a nice little hardcover graphic novel and a pretty…
The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction [Hachette India, 2019]
The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction I was very pleased when I came across this anthology – being from South Asia myself, it was very heartening to see a collection of stories that gave us science fiction tales with a South Asian flavour. Carefully curated by Tarun K. Saint (who also contributes to…
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness [Magrathea Publishing, 2020
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson This book was presented to me by a well-wisher who I consider a very smart and practical person – it was intended I think as a kind of advice and guidance book when I had gone to them in a time…
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! [Penguin Portfolio, 2007]
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! by Scott Adams For anyone who’s been completely oblivious to certain aspects of pop-culture these past couple of decades, Scott Adams was the tweaked, odd and very clever mind behind the Dilbert comic strip that has become the epitome of satire on corporate culture. In addition he wrote the…
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street [DC/Vertigo, 1998]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis (writer), Darick Robertston (Illustrator), Rodney Ramos (Illustrator), Keith Aiken (Illustrator), Nathan Eyring (Illustrator), Garth Ennis (Introduction), Patrick Stewart (Introduction) Absolutely frikkin brilliant this is! This is the book that made me bow my head and acknowledge the genius that is Warren Ellis. Granted the man…
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