Star Wars – The Last Jedi – film review
Coming off the successes of The Force Awakens and Rogue One, I had high hopes for Star Wars – The Last Jedi. Great…
Tag: science fiction
Artemis by Andy Weir – audiobook review
After reading The Martian at the gentle (and repeated) insistence from a friend, I enjoyed it quite a lot. When I heard a…
The Truth Is in the Stars – documentary film review
The Truth Is in the Stars is pretty new (only a few days old now, since its release), and I almost never get…
For the Love of Spock – documentary film review
I’ve loved Star Trek for as long as I can remember. I watched syndicated episodes when I was young, and went to the…
Origin by Dan Brown – book review
Origin, by Dan Brown, started off strong, but quickly became a lecture on the eventual replacement of religion by science. If you were…
Those Idiots from Earth by Richard Wilson – collection review
Those Idiots from Earth was one of my random purchases. I love browsing used book stores and picking up random older titles, just…
Mirages and Speculations – edited by Lyn Worthen – anthology review
Anyone who knows me can tell you how much I love a good anthology. I have over 100 of them, and I’m always…
The Undead Road by David Powers King
I’m not really a huge horror fan. I’m especially not a huge zombie fan. Films, books, television series, and games that feature them…
Mathematics of Eternity by David M. Kelly – book review
Mathematics of Eternity is the first book in a new series by David M. Kelly. Joe Ballen is a cab driver who used…
Doctor Who Series 5 – television series review
Doctor Who Series 5 brings us Matt Smith as the new face of the Doctor, and introduces us to Amy Pond, his new…
Why I don’t want to get over my heroine addiction
For a very long time (decades now), I have had a heroine addiction. It is my secret shame (not really, though, since I…
The Waters of Mars – television special review
The Waters of Mars features the Doctor (David Tennant) as he travels alone to Mars. At first, everything seems normal, other than the…
Straight Outta Tombstone – edited by David Boop – anthology review
I’m not one to read Westerns, weird or otherwise, though I do have a few Western films that I enjoy. However, since I…
Planet of the Dead – television special review
One of the specials aired between Series 4 and Series 5, Planet of the Dead has the Doctor (David Tennant) suddenly transported to…
The Next Doctor – television special review
The Next Doctor was the 2008 Christmas special for the new Doctor Who series. After losing Donna Noble, the Doctor heads off in…
Little Green Men – Attack! – edited by Robin Wayne Bailey and Bryan Thomas Schmidt – anthology review
Little Green Men – Attack! is a campy and entertaining collection of tales by a range of talented writers. Robin Wayne Bailey is…
Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson – short fiction review
Snapshot is a fairly new (February), standalone novella by Brandon Sanderson. This is a case of Sanderson exploring a genre in which he…
Interstellar – film review
I’d heard good things about Interstellar over the last couple years, but I only recently got around to watching it. It tells the…
Dune by Frank Herbert – audiobook review
I first read Dune back in the 1980s sometime, around 20 years after it was originally released. I really enjoyed it, and spent…
Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett – short audiobook review
I have a few friends who keep suggesting I read stories by Leigh Brackett. They pointed out that she co-wrote the screenplay for…
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – film review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a worthy sequel to the first one. Not by any means flawless, but a lot of…