David Gilchrist profile
Place of birth: Glasgow
Now living: Glasgow
3 favourite authors
- Stephen R Donaldson
- James Herbert
- HP Lovecraft
3 favourite books
- Lord Foul's Bane
- The Name of the Wind
- The Dark
3 favourite films
- The Two Towers
- Empire Strikes Back
- Leon
David Gilchrist's 4 reviews
Appointment with F.E.A.R. by Steve Jackson (Fighting Fantasy)
Super Strength, Psi-Powers, Enhanced Technological Skill (ETS), and Energy Blast. How do you pick only one?Yes it’s Fighting Fantasy (FF) time; a reissue of Appointment with F.E.A.R. by Steve Jackson to be exact. This time you are a superhero – the Silver Crusader – and you must battle the evil mastermind Vladamir Utoshs...
8.5/10
Armies of Death by Ian Livingstone (Fighting Fantasy)
YOU are the HERO!Ever been tricked by a trickster hag? If not, you die a cruel and horrible arbitrary death. If you have, turn to paragraph 2.I suffered this fate upon my first attempt. You think I might have been cut some slack after I saved a damsel in distress by a rather skilful (if I say so myself) spot of bag throwing. She wa...
7.5/10
TIM: Defender of the Earth by Sam Enthoven
Take an oversized Tyrannosaur, a swarm of self-replicating nanobots, two kids, and an ancient relic. Mix them all together in central London and what do you get? Destruction, on a biblical scale.TIM, or Tyrannosaur: Improved Model - to give him his Sunday name - is the result of years of government-funded scientific research. After the mo...
6.5/10
The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee
We start 'The Sentinel Mage' as the curse breaks free in the Seven Kingdoms. Only the blood of prince Harkeld can lift the curse.Innis is part of a group of shapeshifting mages, tasked with breaking the curse and saving the seven lands. Standing between them and their goal are; the seven Kingdoms, assassins, the living dead, a loom...
7.0/10