Adam Smith

Surviving Mars takes Elon Musk's dreams and makes them a reality, but how does it actually play?

There it was again – the smell. Barrick glanced at his father, who had his eyes closed but he probably wasn’t asleep, just too exhausted by hunger to keep them open. His cheeks were shallow, as though sucking air, his lips two thin lines of…

"Frank had never thought he’d see the day, but he had to admit it did seem like their relationship had gone through a massive transformation, cult or not."

"I grind my teeth, try not to react. He wants me to break down, to beg him to stop. He wants me to know this is only a taste of what he’ll do to me if I don’t play along."

"Bridge started to complain, “Now what is so important…” but he never finished the sentence. Caught in mid-stride by a punch to the gut, he doubled over with a loud exhalation. One of Nicky’s boys had come from behind the dumpster to the…

"Did I…? Could I…? No, the gun must have just gone off… or I tensed. Yeah, I tensed and squeezed the trigger by accident."

"Celebrity Gulag: only the biggest, most famous, most watched show in the land. Imitated worldwide but never bettered, it is the biggest star vehicle known to humankind."

Australian horror-thriller Killing Ground takes a Wrong Turn but ends up exactly where you would hope.

"Peter’s left axe caught an assassin’s right sword. His right axe trapped the man’s left sword. He pushed outward, spread-eagling his opponent. Stepping in close, his head jerked forward, his forehead crashing into the assassin’s face."

"Something was wrong. I would lie in bed at night with my hands resting on my swollen belly, feeling my baby kick inside me, and I knew that something was terribly, awfully wrong."

Vampire Wars by Perry Lake, the first installment of his Legend of Dracula series, is a well-researched and in-depth account of the rise of Dracula.

How the best-selling suspense author Dean Koontz once topped Adam's list of favourites, and how they have parted ways of late.

With overtones of William Peter Blatty’s humorous dialogue style, Hallow Mass is irreverent, self-deprecating and amusing – a paranormal novel with a personality.

"Like Underworld on speed, it's got all the adrenaline and action-packing shots of entertainment you could want, wrapped up in a no-nonsense narrative."

"...this is a ghost story firmly planted with roots of horror, it is also a human story about relationships, husband and wife, father and son, brother and sister, and the heartache and heartbreak that we can cause to one another.

Available: 6 March Publisher: Snuggly Books Review copy provided by publisher Pre-order Vessel and Solsvart is the upcoming Snuggly Books release written by Norwegian writer Berit Ellingsen. Snuggly in name and nature – the book is a…

Hello Games have broken their silence, if you count tweeting as an acceptable form of reaching the thousands of disappointed gamers. Their couple of tweets may only have been a whisper, but the latest update was a shout, to say "Hey guys!…

Hideo Kojima gifted us with another Death Stranding trailer at the 2016 Game Awards, and boy was it a doozy. If the first jaw-dropping trailer wasn't enough to whet your appetite, check out the latest crazy,…

The Tomorrow Children is a now free-to-play social game available on the PS4 (was out for a price earlier this year) – and it's pretty weird. There wasn't much information about it on the PS Store screen, but as someone who'll try all or…

Hugh Laurie stars as Dr Eldon Chance, a forensic neuro-psychologist who gets mixed up in a shady under-world of dark goings on, in Hulu’s new show, Chance. Following his success playing a sarcastic genius in House, Hugh again tries his hand…