by johncsj@yahoo.com | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
The Syfy Channel’s adaptation of S.A. Corey’s excellent near-future SF series The Expanse was an anomaly from the very beginning: a TV show based on an actual book by actual SF writers, not a freshly made (and frequently derivative) one-off by TV People. When we first...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Nov 29, 2015 | New, Uncategorized
Pretty damn close. AMC’s new post-apocalypse proto-medieval series that’s all murder and intrigue has a lot to recommend it, including great production design, a relatively fresh execution of an increasingly familiar set of tropes … and the fight...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Nov 22, 2015 | Blog, New
Really good audio drama is hard to come by. Good science fiction – especially ‘soft’ science, speculating more on the mind and soul than physics or history, is even harder to find. Which makes The Message. This original new podcast, less than fifteen minutes long in...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, New
We don’t know where this came from; it just mysteriously appeared in our Facebook feed. All we can say is … look to the skies! LOOK TO THE SKIES! Tweet Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Oct 11, 2015 | Blog, New
When we first saw this book from Quirk Books, we thought, “ooh, cute idea. One joke wonder.” We were so very very wrong. Now we get the film version with major players like Lily James (Downton Abbey, the new Cinderella), Matt Smith (do we even have to say?...
