Scide Splitters: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next, the plucky female lead character of The Eyre Affair, is a literary detective in an alternate 1985 England.
Review – The Man Who Haunted Himself (Blu-Ray/DVD)
The Man Who Haunted Himself is, as the title suggests, both a ghost and a doppelgänger story
Characters: Cazaril from The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold is your typical medieval fantasy. There’s magic, and knights, and people in distress and political schemes. On the surface, it doesn’t seem much more than a carbon copy of everything else out there. However, Curse of Chalion does have a lot to make it stand out from the crowd. Among them, is Cazaril, the protagonist. He is not your typical, heroically minded, buffed-up warrior, handsome features hero. The interesting thing about Cazaril, is that he used to be.
Book Review: Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre
Keith West reviews your Halloween reading assignment
Review: The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
There is a lot more to Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man than giant spiders and cats. It is the discovery that the amazing journey of life continues on infinitely, no matter how miniscule we become.
Movie Review — Is That What Scientology Does to Them?
After Earth – a sci fi film masquerading as a science fiction film
A Review of Flashback by Dan Simmons
This book kicks posterior. It’s a wild turbo-boosted ride through a shockingly plausible dystopia.
The Originals Isn’t Exactly Original
“The Originals” is just another “Vampire Diaries” set in modern day America with lots of flash backs. It’s interesting because we already know many of the characters, but do we really need another “Vampire Diaries?”
Book Review: The Long Earth Series by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett
A couple weekends ago I experienced the rare opportunity of having nothing to do. So to celebrate I sat down and just read. Now I can share with you the fruit of that unproductive weekend by reviewing for you the entire Long Earth series by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.
Book Review — A Spooky Tale in Time for Halloween!
Christopher Rice is the son of best-selling fantasy writer Ann Rice, whose tales of vampires in the Deep South sparked a renewed interest in the genre. His new book (from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster) arrived on October 15, and I have to say that, despite a few weaknesses, I enjoyed it more than some of his mother’s works.
Book Review – Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Imaginings Volume: 6 – Feast and Famine is a collection of ten short stories by the British writer Adrian Tchaikovsky, best known for the nine-volume (and counting) fantasy series, Shadows of the Apt, published by Tor.
A Baaaad Case of the Warm and Fuzzies: H. Beam Piper v. John Scalzi
From time to time I make halfhearted efforts to like the things everyone else seems to, like The Beatles. In the same spirit I occasionally apply myself to classic science fiction. I recently dug into Little Fuzzy, the much-loved novel by H. Beam Piper.
Leviathan Wakes Review
[two]I am always looking for new books to read and typically pick one by an author from the current con I am attending. In the case of this book it was because I received an […]
3 Witches: Reading into Dario Argento’s ‘The Three Mothers’ Trilogy
As the eyes and ears of the Horror cognoscenti are transfixed by the new season of American Horror Story, Coven, people will be talking about witches. There are innumerable stereotypes, from the kindly medicine woman in a sylvan glade to the full-blown Bride Of Satan. Each Archetype is a potent and loaded symbol, that speaks volumes about the culture and the writer that produced it. For the occasion, we have decided to investigate three of the most infamous Witch flicks out there: Dario Argento’s ‘The Three Mothers’ trilogy.
The Escape Pod: Listen to your Science Fiction
Escape Pod is a publication which has embraced the digital age. They pay their authors at a professional level, but their stories are available for free as podcast, and also for reading on their site.
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part IV: Anime Horror At Its Finest
The time has finally come for me to attempt to review a series that I can find zero fault with, a series which is pure perfection. I touched upon it briefly, months ago, in my post “It’s Pretty – And Deadly: Horror Animanga.” But it’s finally time for a full review of Toei Animation’s Mononoke.
Review: The Colors of Space
In the tradition of Heinlein, The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley is a provocative space adventure for young adults. But upon closer look, there is a lot more to the story as it becomes a prime example of an archetypical hero’s journey.
Review: Unexplained Fevers, by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Unexplained Fevers brings Snow White, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and others into the present day and/or the real world, making them get MRI’s, buy cars, and putting their images in glossy magazines.
Gravity and the Issue of Art vs. Science
I saw the visually stunning movie Gravity last week and overall enjoyed it very much.
Atlantis is the new Merlin
The origin TV show Merlin was the BBC’s big sci-fi fantasy show that had families across the nation tuning in on Saturday nights. But the show finished recently so the BBC needed to find something new […]
Sequential Wednesdays #22 – Big Apple, Big Schedule at New York Comic-Con
New York Comic-Con (NYCC) is just around the corner and it’s looking to be my busiest convention yet. Sure, I schedule, I plan, I prepare, but in the end I often compromise. Rapid panel-hopping and […]
Book Review: Transcendental by James Gunn
Few characters, and people, start off with the intention of winding up where they do. There are the few who succeed at their childhood dreams. The astronauts, the politicians, the firefighters (though I imagine these […]
Les Revues de Science Fiction en France
Les revues ont existé depuis les années 50. Là aussi, il y a eu un profond remaniement du paysage dans les années 80. La mythique revue Fiction qui avait été créé en 1951 disparaît en […]
One Hell Of A Story: A Review of Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity
“Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission…” Gravity is a constant reality to humanity. It forever keeps our feet planted on the Earth we’ve risen up from and is innate to the way […]
Review: Star Trek – The Art of Juan Ortiz
In Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz, the renowned artist Juan Ortiz has created a brilliant collection of movie posters, one for each of the eighty individual episodes of the original series.
Scide Splitters: Unidentified Funny Objects 2 edited by Alex Shvartsman
If done well, an anthology is like a box of chocolates filled with a variety of delectable confections. Granted, there are bound to be a few flavors you are not partial to, but on the whole, the selection is delightful. When not done so well, you end up with something a little more like Monty Python’s Whizzo Chocolates, getting a mouthful of Crunchy Frog or Cockroach Cluster….
Book Review: Dr. Sleep. Does Every Book Really Need a Sequel?
Does Dr. Sleep stack up against The Shining?
Film Review: Except For Us
This is a film that I really hope makes the rounds. It is another project funded through Kickstarter, and a solid science fiction film at that
Book Review: Black Magic Academy
Black Magic Academy isn’t your classic school story with magic. Not really.
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