3 questions I still have after watching Wonder Woman 1984
2021-01-02
If you haven’t seen this excellent movie yet, go watch it on HBO Max, then come back. I’ll wait.Read More →
Pandemic bingewatch: Tony Shaloub is at his best when infected by space bugs in ‘BrainDead’
2020-12-28
I came for Tony Shalhoub and I was not disappointed.Read More →
Star Trek: Lower Decks: A refreshing take on a well-established franchise
2020-12-18
I don’t consider myself a hard-core Trekkie by any means, but I sure have watched a lot of Star Trek. “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” or TNG, had its seven-season run when I was just a kid and I watched almost every episode as I was growing up, often with family.Read More →
Review: Reception by Kenzie Jennings
2020-10-29
Jenning’s debut novel stands out against her peers in a horrifying examination of family intersectionality, mental trauma, and compelling story-telling.Read More →
‘Illidan: World of Warcraft’ — Sympathizing with the Devil
2020-10-27
In William King’s tie-in novel, you can explore one of the World of Warcraft’s most cold-blooded villains, a night elf who goes by Illidan Stormrage.Read More →
Pandemic Bingewatch: Away
2020-10-17
Update: Netflix is not picking up Away for a second season. Pandemic Bingewatch: Away By Maria Korolov I have to be honest. I’m not really the target audience for Netflix’ new science fiction drama, Away. Yes, it’s about humanity’s first manned mission to Mars. And yes, it stars Academy Award-winningRead More →
Preview: BBC takes on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
2020-10-13
BBC America just released the first video previews of “The Watch,” a series based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and it’s not looking at all like what people were expecting.Read More →
Pandemic Bingewatch: ‘What We Do In the Shadows’
2020-10-10
What if “The Office” was staffed by vampires? Here’s the answer, folks. Read More →
Artificial Intelligence experiments produce satisfyingly bizarre results
2020-09-28
Come have a laugh with Dr. Shane.Read More →
‘The Killing Moon’: Where Dreaming Means Death
2020-09-04
If you live for reliable magic systems that still feel otherworldly and strange, then the Dreamblood duology is for you.Read More →
New Terry Pratchett book out today
2020-09-03
Terry Pratchett is one of my all-time favorite authors, and even though he died five years ago, a new book is now out, a collection of never-before-published short stories he wrote for local newspapers back in the 1960s and 1970s.Read More →
Season 2 of ‘Umbrella Academy’ Outstrips the First
2020-08-26
The “Umbrella Academy” series is worth your while if you love wacky, unique, funny stories that stretch the boundaries of genre and convention. Read More →
Netflix sends Hilary Swank ‘Away’ to Mars
2020-08-13
Netflix’s new show “Away”, the first 10-episode season of which drops Sept. 4, takes a realistic, personal approach to the first manned trip to Mars.Read More →
55 Years Later, ‘Dune’ Still Rises
2020-08-07
As Dune continues to work its way back into the social consciousness, I believe it is worth revisiting some of the novel’s core themes, and considering them in the light of 2020.Read More →
Free book — first in the Lady Astronauts series
2020-08-03
A couple of people in this group have talked about Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars. The book won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2019 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2019 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.Read More →