I’m a big fan of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series of books. I had the privilege of seeing Mr. Butcher at this year’s Dragon*Con. Now, the Sci-Fi channel has turned the series into a television serial, with mixed-positive, results, in my opinion. As a caveat, I must note that this television series has always been …
Category Archives: Fiction
Science Fiction Spacecraft
It’s because I read The Bad Astronomy Blog that I get links like this major freaking awesome comparison of sizes between various science fiction spacecraft. Go and ogle.
Book Reviews redux
19 book reviews on the 14th of January. 315 pages per book(taken from the Amazon.com statistics, which admittedly, contain blank pages and title pages, etc.) 5,984 pages in one day. I’m impressed, as always, by Ms. Harriet Klausner. Useless crap.
James Cameron is the Man!
James Cameron is exploring new territory, as usual. He will be coming out with a movie that pushes boundaries back, just like The Terminator, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and Titanic. This project (which isn’t exactly new, but I just heard about it) will combine live action actors and the technology that brought the …
Young Adult Fiction
Sometimes I’m suprised after reading a book that it was classified as “Young Adult” literature. Retrospectively, I shouldn’t be because the subject matter usually deals with a young person overcoming obstacles or coming of age, etc. The Belgariad, Harry Potter, Eragon, etc., have all entertained me to the point where I would recommend them to …
Why You Shouldn't Recommend Books
I have given up taking book recommendations from the masses. I am a quick reader, but I won’t read things if I don’t like them, or if they don’t entertain me. I have developed opinions about novels over the course of my reading career and I don’t like to force a novel past my eyes. …
Harriet Klausner
You learn new things every day. Not necessarily useful things, but things. Possibly, these various items may pop up in a bar quiz someday. I can only hope. Today’s thing is Harriet Klausner. This was clued to me by one of SFSignal’s various tidbit posts. This post lists a comment train that has been continuing …
Transformers Trailer
There’s a new trailer out for the Transformers movie coming next summer.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
J.K. Rowling has named book 7! I object, though. When I read this bbc article it said, “The announcement was made on the writer’s official website.” I immediately (we’re talking nanoseconds, here) went to the official website and found…nothing. Just her update from the 19th. Hmmmm… Maybe it got retracted? Maybe BBC jumped the gun? …
Woo Woo Woo: Crazy Land
Through random occurrence, I popped over to the Troubled Times website. I was under the impression before clicking through that it was a survivalist/preparation website. Given some of the apolocalyptic fiction I read, there’s interest for me there. However, survival was only the skin of what I found. Troubled Times believes that a world-wide cataclysm, …