Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #14 May 2015 | Page 40

ing them. Upon approaching I tried to kill him, even
the character you play is confused and allows you
to battle this strange undead after a brief cut scene.
After beating him he tells you that he is not with them,
though he is very much dead. He is in fact a spirit
6,000 years old that takes on new hosts from time
to time. He is very bored and following you seems
like fun. I call him the Lich Pimp mostly because
his undead body, which looks like it may have been
some royal that had been mummified, has a crown and
a large sceptre that he uses to help him walk. Even

funnier still, his walk looks like that of a stereotypical
pimp walk.
Despite its combat problems, out of sync cut scene
graphics and the final boss fight that literally took me
two days to defeat, I give Bound by Flame 4 and a half
stars. I really found myself enjoying it greatly and I
had a hard time putting the controller down. Though
not marked as so, it truly is a strategy type game and
should be given a chance. The fun and challenge of it
was figuring out what worked best for me.

Book reviews
By Pete Sutton

previously posted on the Bristol Book Blog: http://
brsbkblog.blogspot.co.uk/

American Elsewhere
by Robert Jackson
Bennet

When ex-cop Mona Bright’s father dies, she finds that
she has just inherited her mother’s house in Wink,
New Mexico. The only problem is, the town of Wink
doesn’t exist on any map. She has a limited time to
claim it and must perform some detective work to find
it. She discovers that her mother, a basket case and
suicide in Mona’s troubled childhood, used to work
for a physics laboratory. When she arrives in Wink,
she finds that it is almost too good to be true, a perfect
little town. But what is the secret at the heart of the
town, why is the laboratory abandoned, what’s the
significance of the lightning storm in the town’s history, and why are so many of the townsfolk odd? This
is a large book but doesn’t read like one. The central
‘mystery’ may have been drawn out a little too long,
but it isn’t a drag to get there. Bright is a fantastic
protagonist, and the book is chock full of great characters, scenes, and ideas. A fascinating premise, a heavy
dollop of weird,