THE BOX FROM JAPAN
This is it: the magnum opus of the late Harry Stephen Keeler, the world’s most bizarre mystery novelist
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI
One of the best movie novelizations I’ve ever read, complimenting and enhancing its source film considerably while standing as a uniquely spirited and invigorating piece of work in its own right
DIONYSUS: THE ULTIMATE EXPERIMENT
This book outlines a little remarked-upon but quite pertinent facet of space travel: sex in zero gravity
1990: The year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam at the year’s more obscure and underappreciated films, we arrive at 1990
THE ADAM EXPERIMENT
This one certainly sounds good, being, apparently, a “near-future thriller with the terror of ALIEN, the horror of ROSEMARY’S BABY, the suspense of COMA!”
YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE
One of the more endearingly ridiculous entries in the early 1980s sword and sorcery movie craze was this Italian-Turkish co-production, which plays like an unholy mash-up of QUEST FOR FIRE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and STAR WARS
ROBOPOCALYPSE
I didn’t think much of this inexplicably popular take on one of science fiction’s widely utilized clichés
DOOMSDAY BOOK
One of the most inexplicably overrated science fiction novels of the nineties, and possibly of all time
REPLAY
Never underestimate the power of baby boomer nostalgia. It was that which gave us BACK TO THE FUTURE and the similarly oriented novel REPLAY by the late Ken Grimwood
2018: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2018? There’s really not much to say, outside my usual observation that the really good stuff often lurks outside the mainstream