Thursday, 19 January 2012  'City of Hell' - Colin F Barnes  City
of Hell is a collection of short stories edited by Colin F
Barnes, which chronicles the downfall of humanity and the rise
of Maurr and his armies of insects. When Colin Barnes first told
me of his project I thought it sounded promising. I expected
something like a The Walking Dead, but with giant It Came from
the Desert ants instead of zombies. Thank you Anachron Press for
sending me a review copy of City of Hell.  The first story in
the collection is written by Colin F Barnes himself, and it
describes how it all began. A man watches his wife die giving
birth to their already dead child in a hospital. Some time
afterwards he starts tinkering at home trying to build a
machine. He cannot remember where they come from but he has
drawings for it, drawn in his own hand. He is very angry all the
time, angry with the doctors and nurses for letting his family
die, angry with the world. Thoughts of violence are churning
through his head.   I thought it w