Andrew Hickey: 19 books

Cover of Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-74
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018

In the first ten years of their career, the Kinks underwent a creative explosion that was almost unparalleled in popular music. Starting with simple but potent garage rock tracks like You Really Got Me, the band, and lead singer/songwriter Ray Davies, quickly became one of the most idiosyncratic...
Cover of Welcome to the Multiverse: An Unauthorised Examination of Grant Morrison's Multiversity
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018

Andrew Hickey, author of An Incomprehensible Condition: An Unauthorised Guide To Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, takes a brief, discursive, tour through the many worlds of Grant Morrison's Multiversity series. Not authorised in any way by DC Comics, this is not a guidebook, and not annotations. Rather,...
Cover of An Incomprehensible Condition: An Unauthorised Guide to Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

In An Incomprehensible Condition, Andrew Hickey examines Grant Morrison’s 2005 comic series Seven Soldiers of Victory, and traces the history of the ideas used. From Greek myth to hip-hop, from John Bunyan to Alan Turing, from Arius of Alexandria to Isaac Newton, we see how Frankenstein connects...
Cover of Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

Guides to Comics, TV, and SF

by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

What do Batman, Doctor Who, quantum physics, Oscar Wilde, liberalism, the second law of thermodynamics, Harry Potter fanfic, postmodernism, and Superman have in common? If your answer to that was “Nothing” then… well, you’re probably right. But in this book Andrew Hickey will try to convince...
Cover of The Beach Boys on CD Volume 1: 1961-69

The Beach Boys on CD Volume 1: 1961-69

The Beach Boys on CD, #1

by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018

Between 1961 and 1969 the Beach Boys made nineteen albums, including some of the best music ever recorded - and some not so good. In this book, Andrew Hickey looks at this music track by track, analysing every song that Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, Bruce and David recorded and released during that...
Cover of The Beach Boys on CD Volume 2: 1970-1984

The Beach Boys on CD Volume 2: 1970-1984

The Beach Boys on CD, #2

by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018

Between 1970 and 1984 the Beach Boys, both solo and together, made some of the best albums ever recorded - and some not so good. In this book, Andrew Hickey takes a personal look at this music track by track, analysing every song that Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, Bruce, Blondie and Ricky...
Cover of California Dreaming: The LA Pop Music Scene and the 60s
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

In 1960, a group of young men in California recorded an instrumental single, Moon Dawg, and started what would become known as surf music. Within a few years, those young men would have been important parts of records by the Beach Boys, Frank Zappa, Canned Heat, the Monkees, and many more. In...
Cover of The Beach Boys on CD Volume Three

The Beach Boys on CD Volume Three

The Beach Boys on CD, #3

by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017

Between 1983 and 2017 the Beach Boys released dozens of albums, together and apart, including some of the best music ever recorded - and some not so good. In this book, Andrew Hickey looks at this music track by track, analysing every song that Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, Bruce and David recorded...
Cover of Fifty Stories for Fifty Years: An Unauthorised Guide to the Highlights of Doctor Who
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018

Doctor Who has been a British institution for fifty years, enthralling generations of fans. In this book, Andrew Hickey takes a personal critical look at one story from every one of those fifty years, starting with the very first story, An Unearthly Child, and ending with 2012's The Snowmen,...
Cover of Monkee Music: Second Edition
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018

Here they come... In Monkee Music, Andrew Hickey, author of The Beach Boys On CD, and California Dreaming: The LA Pop Music Scene and the 60s, examines the music of Micky, Mike, Davy and Peter from their early bubblegum pop hits with "Last Train To Clarksville" and "I'm A Believer",...
Cover of Ideas and Entities
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018

In Ideas and Entities, Andrew Hickeyasks such questions as: What if the singularity was brought about by social media gaming? Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? What should you do if you accidentally defame a werewolf? Are physicists keeping the secret of time travel to themselves? And is...
Cover of Doctor Watson Investigates: The Case of the Scarlet Neckerchief
by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018

When Holmes is called away, Watson is left to assist a client with a uniquely horrible problem. Can Watson solve the mystery of the scarlet neckerchief before his client is murdered? Doctor John H Watson was the companion and biographer of Sherlock Holmes for many decades, but here for the first time is proof of the good Doctor's own deductive abilities.
Cover of The Basilisk Murders

The Basilisk Murders

The Sarah Turner Mysteries, #1

by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

"Was this going to be the end? I wondered as I sprinted down yet another flight of stairs. Was I going to get caught, and get killed, by a geek serial killer?" When Sarah arrives at a tech conference she's meant to be covering for her magazine, she thinks it'll be a few days away...
Cover of The Glam Rock Murders

The Glam Rock Murders

The Sarah Turner Mysteries, #2

by Andrew Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018

Sarah Turner's not a fan of seventies rock, but a job's a job, and when she gets an assignment writing copy for the reunion tour of the legendary glam rock band The Cillas, she decides she'll try to have fun and make the best of it. But when the band and their associates start dying, Sarah is once...
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