“The plot itself has enough twists and turns to keep you firmly entranced and the pace is pretty much relentless throughout the whole novel, there are a few genuine surprises too and the author throws a few curve balls that I really didn’t see coming at all… there is a real maturity to the prose which does create an effective counterpoint to the over-the-top Theme Park backdrop. I seriously loved this book, as with all of the author’s novels there is a relentless vibrance, an unforgiving energy that you can’t help but be swept along with and this is combined with a great plot, larger than life characters and some powerful messages, highly recommended.” 5 STARS

- SFBook.com

Read the full review at:  www.sfbook.com/theme-planet.htm

Conflicts: http://www.pornokitsch.com/2011/12/underground-reading-conflicts-ian-whates.html#more

Further Conflicts: http://www.pornokitsch.com/2011/12/new-releases-further-conflicts-edited-by-ian-whates.html

On another note (but still relating to Pornokitsch), I have just received my absolutely beautifully bound hardback copy of Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse, in which I have a short story Πανδαιμονειον about a disenchanted teacher who gets sucked up an insane visitation of Hell to the mortal realm… http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pandemonium-Stories-Apocalypse-ebook/dp/B00624EIBK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1325494623&sr=1-1

Finally, Morpheus Tales (http://www.morpheustales.com/) have just released their #15 Supplement, in which my novel Theme Planet is reviewed and, ahem, The Rem is also interviewed. Check out: http://issuu.com/morpheustales/docs/mt15supplement

And finally finally Anarchy Books are just finishing their FREE BOOK PROMOTION which has been a great success (nearly 20,000 downloads great success/ which is good, I think, for a leedle publisher like Anarchy), and you can just nip in at the end of the promotion and bag your free books by brilliant authors such as James Lovegrove, Eric Brown, Gary McMahon, Dan Henk, Jeffrey Thomas and Vincent Holland-Keen.

Check out: www.anarchy-books.com

Cheers!! And Happy New Year.

That’s right, Anarchy Books have a very special New Year gift for all you lucky shiny new Kindle owners.

During the next 4/5 days over the New Year period, a selection of Anarchy Books titles will be offered completely FREE! So if you fancy any of the following novels, get yo ass over to Amazon and stock up your Kindle with Anarchy for the New Year….

Participating titles:

GIG (Mik and Kim) by James Lovegrove

Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas

New York Nights by Eric Brown

Rain Dogs by Gary McMahon

SIM by Andy Remic

Serial Killers Incorporated by Andy Remic

The Black Seas of Infinity by Dan Henk

The Office of Lost and Found by Vincent Holland-Keen

All free!

Have a HAPPY ANARCHY NEW YEAR!!

www.anarchy-books.com

http://anarchy-books.com/books/mainstream/free-anarchy-books/

Serial Killers Incorporated out 1st April 2011.

“Andy Remic is our hard-talking, hard-fighting (bunny rabbit of an…) author whose novels are always full of action packed, gun-blazing hardcore SF. His long-running Combat-K Series is “Fun and fast-paced ass-kicking action.”

http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-17-need-something-with-kick-this.html

ULTIMATE ADVENTURE MAGAZINE

BIKING | CLIMBING | HIKING | TRAVEL | CAMPING | ADVENTURE

Issue #1 – Jan/Feb 2012

In this first bumper-packed 190 PAGE 60,000 WORD issue, we have an interview with CLAUDIO VON PLANTA, famous for filming Long Way Round and Long Way Down with EWAN MCGREGOR and CHARLIE BOORMAN, where he talks about his adventures behind the camera in places like Afghanistan and Africa, and tracking down Osama Bin Laden…

We have interviews with best-selling horror novelist  GUY N. SMITH, New Zealand rock-singer and recent Glastonbury performer JORDAN REYNE, ultra-marathon runner ANDREW MURRAY and top SFF artist VINCENT CHONG.

We have features on climbing in Scotland, crossing Australia on a postie’s moped, cycling in the Akamas mountains in Cyprus, making a short horror medical zombie film, and heading to Mexico in search of buried secrets.

All this, along with news, letters, competitions, the ANTI-CLARKSON column, Whackjob Jim Column and The Horror, The Horror Column, reviews of kit, motorbikes, caravans, restaurants, books, video games, albums and sports fuel, short fiction by Garry Charles, a serialised graphic novel by Martyn Pick, your favourite Grumpy Old Man — and Ultimate Kids Adventure, something for the kids (and their parents!) to do at weekends.

Available as:

• a PDF (suitable for PC, MAC, iPAD etc) at www.uamag.co.uk

• a text-only version for your EPUB and Kindle (MOBI) readers at www.uamag.co.uk

• an online readable magazine at ISSUU: www.issuu.com/ultimateadventuremagazine/docs/issue1

• a print version, which can be purchased at www.lulu.com

Alternative digital versions are also available at Amazon, Lulu, iTunes and Barnes & Noble.

All UAMAG digital versions are FREE! We must be mad…

We hope you enjoy!

Please note: NOBODY has been paid for anything in Ultimate Adventure Magazine. Every little bit has been done out of our love of biking, climbing, hiking and travel. So please please please help us by tweeting, facebooking, spreading the word to your friends and on forums – our continued existence will depend on our download figures!!

“The novel follows Dexter Colls, a dirty grizzled Earth policeman on his trip to the Theme Planet with his family; the entire theme planet is an alien theme world with wild wild rides! However, when his wife and children disappear, and the entire planet seem to turn against Dexter, he realises the Theme Planet has some terrible secrets…”

Blurb:

It’s better than sex! It’s better than drugs! If you haven’t been sick yet, you soon will be… Welcome to Theme Planet, an entire alien world dedicated to insane rides, excessive hedonism and dangerous adventure. Operated by the Monolith Corporation, Theme Planet is the No. 1 destination for fun-seeking human holidaymakers Galaxy-Wide! Amba Miskalov is an Anarchy Android, an assassin/torture model fitted with a Quantell Systems v4.7 KillChip. She is beautiful, merciless and deadly, and blends perfectly with her human superiors. Sent to Theme Planet on a dangerous assassination mission, Amba stumbles upon a plot to undermine and destroy Earth’s all-powerful Oblivion Government and its Ministers of Joy. But Amba is twisted, damaged and decadent and this rebellion poses Amba a problem: to remain loyal to her creators and tormentors, to support the enemy or annihilate them all.

THEME PLANET

A Novel of The Anarchy

It’s better than SEX! It’s better than DRUGS!

If you haven’t been SICK yet, you soon will be…

Welcome to Theme Planet, an entire alien world dedicated to insane rides, excessive hedonism and dangerous adventure. Operated by the Monolith Corporation, Theme Planet is THE NO.1 destination for fun-seeking human holidaymakers Galaxy-Wide!

Amba Miskalov is an Anarchy Android, an assassin/torture model fitted with a Quantell Systems v4.7 KillChip. She is beautiful, merciless and deadly, and blends perfectly with her human superiors. Sent to Theme Planet on a dangerous assassination mission, Amba stumbles upon a plot to undermine and destroy Earth’s all-powerful Oblivion Government – and its Ministers of Joy. But Amba is twisted, damaged and decadent – and this rebellion poses Amba a problem: to remain loyal to her creators and tormentors, to support the enemy – or annihilate them all.

The collection holds eighteen original tales of the end of the world, inspired by
the artist John Martin and dreamed up by some of today’s best science fiction,
fantasy and horror talent. You can purchase the eBook through Amazon (UK and US). A limited edition hardcover will be sold exclusively at Tate Britain from mid-November.

Pandemonium contains:

“The Architect of Hell” – David Bryher

“Chislehurst Messiah” – Lauren Beukes

“The Last Man” – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“OMG GTFO” – S.L. Grey

“Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion” – Archie Black

“Another Abyss” – Magnus Anderson

“Evacuation” – Tom Pollock

“A Private Viewing” – Scott K. Andrews

“Πανδαιμονειον” – Andy Remic

“Closer” – Osgood Vance

“At the Sign of the Black Dove” – Lou Morgan

“Deluge” – Kim Lakin-Smith

“The Day or the Hour” – Jonathan Oliver

“The End of the World” – Den Patrick

“The Immaculate Particle” – Charlie Human

“The Harvest” – Chrysanthy Balis

“Postapocalypse” – Sam Wilson

“Not the End of the World” – Sophia McDougall

Pandemonium is introduced by Tom Hunter, Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin. The eBook was created by Handebooks.co.uk.

A portion of each sale is donated to the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Read more at: http://www.pornokitsch.com/2011/11/pandemonium-stories-of-the-apocalypse.html