Your Post Apocalyptic Reading List
There’s nothing tastier for the hardened Sci-Fi lover than a bracing dose of Apocalyptic literature. For me and my inner nerd, these books occupy the dual roles of entertainment and potential skill...
View ArticleStephen King’s Next Sci-Fi Epic “Under The Dome”
Let me preface this post with the following warning. I am a huge fan of Stephen King. I grew up with his books, reading many of them many times. I think I learned a great deal about how to be a better...
View ArticleStarlog the Magazine Shuts Down, Goes Exclusively Online
I was never one of those guys who devoured sci-fi magazines like a fat kid and cake, so I can’t really say I’m all that bothered by this news that sci-fi magazine Starlog has decided to cease...
View ArticleNerd Read: Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
Hello nerds, geeks and poindexters of the world. Hold on to your pocket protector and thick rimmed glasses held together with tape because there is cause to rejoice. In case you didn’t know already,...
View ArticleStephen King’s Under The Dome Cover Art
If you are like me and dream of someday stalking Mr. King until, desperate to expunge his nightmares of my torment he is forced to write a book about me, then you too are eagerly awaiting his soon to...
View ArticleBook Review: Under the Dome by Stephen King
The town of Chester’s Mill, ME is changed forever on October 21st, when an invisible force field materializes to quarantine it from the rest of humanity. Not truly a dome as the title suggests, the...
View ArticleTrailer For Stephen King’s Under The Dome
Stephen King isn’t a good Sci-Fi writer, he’s a great Sci-Fi writer. In what I’m hoping will be a fantastic return to his epic and massive early “The Stand” period, we will soon be enjoying “Under The...
View ArticleA Celebration of Fan Love — Firefly: Still Flying Book Review
I’m a fan of Joss Whedon’s sci-fi space western, “Firefly” and the follow up movie “Serenity,” but I am by no means a “Browncoat.” That is the preferred name for the uber fans of the franchise that,...
View ArticleBook Giveaway: Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games
With Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games” set to be released on paperback July 6th, and a movie version of the first book due out from Lionsgate sometime in 2011, we have five copies of the book in...
View ArticleDavid Goyer’s Heaven’s Shadow Trilogy Lands at Warner Bros.
David Goyer knows a thing or two about genre writing, but he’s usually kept his talents to the big and little screens, doing everything from “Superman Returns” to the “Batman Begins” films with...
View ArticleBook Review: All You Need is Kill (by Hiroshi Sakurazaka)
In a lot of ways, Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s “All You Need is Kill” reminded me of John Steakley’s “Armor”, one of the very first sci-fi novels I ever picked up (completely on a whim, natch), and ended up...
View ArticleBook Review: Star Wars — Millennium Falcon 3D Owner’s Guide
Remember how cool it was to be a “Star Wars” fan in the late 90′s, that gloriously heady period between 1997 and 1999? Between the special editions raking in cash hand over fist in theaters and the...
View ArticleGiveaway: Star Wars Millennium Falcon 3D Book
Who doesn’t love Star Wars? Or 3D? (Okay, I can do without every single one of my movies being turned into 3D, but that’s another gripe.) Now, books in 3D — that’s kinda cool. Thanks to the good folks...
View ArticleBook Review: Old Man’s War (by John Scalzi)
John Scalzi’s 2005 sci-fi/war novel “Old Man’s War” made news recently when it was optioned by Paramount Studios, with director Wolfgang Petersen (“The Perfect Storm”) attached to direct. While it has...
View ArticleBook Review: Robopocalypse (by Daniel H. Wilson)
What happens when we make our robots too smart and they develop self-awareness? Naturally they try to kill us. Anyone who has seen any amount of sci-fi movies knows that. So yeah, Daniel Wilson’s...
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