It's been a long wait, but finally we got a new Star Trek television series, and my expectations were surpassed by multiple warp factors. First, I better preface that by saying that my expectations were very, very low. After all the terrible TNG movies, and the somewhat entertaining but definitely NOT Trek JJ Abrahms movies, …
Who wrote this?
I've been re-watching season one of the new Doctor Who, and it is so refreshingly good from the newer seasons. Mainly because it makes sense, character's choices have reasons, cause and effect exist, etc. That is, until I got to 'the empty child'. Watching that I started to have the same, vaguely annoyed feeling of …
Very short story
I accepted a random challenge to write a 75 word story about a duel at high noon... this is what I came up with: No shadows. Sun sizzles on my scalp. Lips crack, skin flakes red. Eyes blink sticky. My tongue is a paper reproduction. Resist. Cool crystalline water, ice snap popping, condensation beading …
Television is increasingly amazing while movies are festering sores on the face of all entertainment
I just heard the news that Dawn,the first in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis series is being made into a TV series! The fact that this series would even be considered for anything on screen is testament to how awesome TV has become. There are no space battles or explosions in this series. There is no …
Peace on Earth, by Stanislaw Lem
I finished Peace on Earth and I think it's possible that I didn't 'get' this book. I have found afterward that it was meant to be a satire, and though some of it was funny, I took it more of a straight up sci fi adventure/thought piece. Maybe that is why I was a bit …
Jonas David 