Theaker's Quarterly Fiction

TQF59 contains seven short stories: The Devil's Hollow by Rafe McGregor, Give You a Game? by Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Baby Downstairs by Jessy Randall, The Constant Providers by Charles Wilkinson, Man + Van by David Penn, The Night They Sacked New Rome by Elaine Graham-Leigh, and Anathema: The Underside by Chris Roper. It also features the announcement of the first Theaker's Quarterly Award winners, and an essay on fake internet reviews, plus a selection of fake reviews produced by TQF to raise money for Comic Relief on Red Nose Day. There are ninety pages of reviews, by Stephen Theaker, Jacob Edwards, Douglas J. Ogurek and Rafe McGregor. Books and audios reviewed: work by Joey Graceffa, John Scalzi, James Lovegrove, Emily Foster, Greg Egan, Nick Mamatas, Bruce Campbell, S.T. Joshi, Oliver Langmead, Bruce Sterling, Lisa A. Koosis, Kai Ashante Wilson and Matthew Hughes. Comics reviewed: Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift, Bloodshot: Reborn, The Complete Scarlet Traces, Groo: Fray of the Gods, The Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga, Princess Jellyfish 01, and X-Men: Legacy. Films reviewed: Assassin's Creed, The Bye Bye Man, Get Out, Kong: Skull Island, The Lego Batman Movie, Logan, Rogue One, Spectral, and Split. Television reviewed: Ash vs Evil Dead, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks, The Expanse, iZombie, The Man in the High Castle, Sherlock, and Westworld.