Dec 24, 2019

Advent Calendar: 24th Wormhole

Last but not least some more new weird.
Hope you folks have the time to read and relax a lot over the festive days!

Dec 20, 2019

Advent Calendar: 20th Wormhole

Jakob keeps on gushing and gushing and gushing about this book! Time to find out if you wil too...

Dec 19, 2019

Advent Calendar: 19th Wormhole

2019 was big on good literary horror with a touch of weird - here is one of the bests!

Dec 18, 2019

Advent Calendar: 18th Wormhole


We are yet another day closer to the festive season and if you still haven't got a present for that fantasy freak in your family or if  you will really need a solid universe to escape to, this one's for you!

Dec 17, 2019

Advent Calendar: 17th Wormhole

Simon's enthusiasm for this RPG-collection is so catchy that he just might convert even bona fide non-gamers with the 17th wormhole!

Advent Calendar: 16th Wormhole

The 16th wormhole hosts a book of schemes and cabals, and Sarah is wholly intrigued...

Dec 15, 2019

Advent Calendar: 15th Wormhole

A little prick of the needle is waiting behind our 15h wormhole ...


Advent Calendar: 14th Wormhole

Today, Marc is recommending an sf classic - and finds himself surprised in the end ...

Dec 13, 2019

Advent Calendar - 13th Wormhole

Behind our 13th wormhole, somehting angry is waiting, something sentient - and smart ...

Dec 12, 2019

Shortly interrupting the advent craze...

...to remind you that we're meeting tomorrow evening for the last book club discussion of the year!
Meeting starts at 7.30 at the Otherland Bookshop as usual and the book of the evening is The Silver Wind by Nina Allan, which, incidentally, Jakob had reviewed in our last newsletter.
It is composed of several loosely connected but highly incoherent short stories and novellas revolving marginally around the topics time and time travel and centering on the same set of characters. With The Silver Wind, we're ending the year on a book that is not really like any of the others we have been reading - namely more of a romance that focuses on interpersonal relationships rather than speculative content and we will see how that discussion goes! Tomorrow 7.30 pm at the Otherland! There are snacks and drinks you don't have to pay for, we're happy for every contribution, though. You don't need to sign up to join us, but please read the book if you want to discuss it.

Upcoming Otherland Speculative Fiction Book Club discussions are:
December 13 - Silver Wind by Nina Allan
January 10 - Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
January 24 -  Combined and Uneven Apocalypse by Evan Calder Williams
February 14 - Neuromancer by William Gibson
March 13 - Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield

Advent Calendar - 12th Wormhole

Behind our 12th wormhole, we are awaited - quite unexpetantly - by lush and verdant vegetation and the seeting jungle of hell ...


Dec 11, 2019

Advent Calendar - 11th Wormhole

Behind today's advent wormhole, you'll find THE gaming classic - just as you knew it and at the same time, as you never encountered it before ...

Dec 10, 2019

Advent Calendar: 10th Wormhole

Our tenth wormhole leads into the bitter cold, into the mouth of the Wolf and the Whale ... (meanwhile, on our German website, Caro is recommending a German YA classic).

Dec 9, 2019

Advent Calendar: 9th Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website!

Dec 8, 2019

Advent Calendar - Eighth Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website! It's two great modern Horror authors today, with Inci recommending Paul Tremblay in German and Jakob singing John Langan's praise in English!

Dec 7, 2019

Advent Calendar - Seventh Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website! Today, Marc is recommending the same book in both languages ...

Dec 6, 2019

Advent Calendar: Sixth Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website! The sixth wormhole leads to sends us to the catnet ...

Dec 5, 2019

Advent Calendar: Fifth Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website! Our fifth wormhole over here on the English blog leads to Nigeria - and from there, much, much further ...

Dec 4, 2019

Advent Calendar: Fourth Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website!

Dec 3, 2019

Advent Calendar: Third Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website!

Dec 2, 2019

Advent Calendar: Second Wormhole

From the 1st until the 24th of December, we'll present you a reading tip from our holidays newsletter on this blog - and another reading tip, in German, on our website! Let's go for another double-feature where we the same book (or rather, series of books) is waiting behind our wormhole in both languages ...