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Origin: a tale of immortality
Deep in the rain forests of South America there is a secret laboratory complex that is devoted to a single project, and the result of that project is a girl named Pia. All of their work has led to the … Continue reading
Gordon, the fat guy, and the skinny douche
Two years ago, when Master Chef started up on teevee, I took note of the three judges. Gordon Ramsay, everybody knows. Graham Elliot? Never heard of him, but when they indicated that he has at least one Michelin star, I … Continue reading
Zoom! Bang!
A couple of science fiction booknotes! Zap! Pow! :: I’ve seen some mention of a book over the last year or so on various SF blogs called Ready Player One, by a writer named Ernest Cline. Aside from those mentions, … Continue reading
“Sacre Bleu!” (musings on a Christopher Moore novel)
(So I read Lance Mannion’s review of this book, and I wanted to refer to mine…only to discover that I wrote it but never posted it. Oops.) Any serious reader has, I suppose, an honor roll of authors whose work … Continue reading
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Making Piece
Grief is an odd emotion. It’s deeply unpleasant at first, and it pretty much stays unpleasant the longer it’s there. But you eventually reach a point where even though it’s unpleasant, you don’t mind grief all that much, because at … Continue reading
“Across the Universe” by Beth Revis
One theme I see a lot in various science fiction commentary sites and blogs I read is that the genre itself is lagging in readership behind fantasy and horror to a pretty significant degree, and that one of the reasons … Continue reading
River of Stars
That’s the title of Guy Gavriel Kay’s next novel: River of Stars. As I noted before, it is set in the same fictional China as his last book, the amazing Under Heaven, albeit several hundred years later, so it’s not … Continue reading
“Until that one day, the day I went Crazy, I was fine.”
I finished reading a new book, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, by Brian Castner, the other day. Since then I’ve been thinking about one question: What good comes from war? This is one … Continue reading
When I am Lord of the Planet, this fellow shall be my Science Advisor.
A few weeks ago, Kevin Drum had a post (yes, I am too lazy to track down the link) in which he indicated that he just doesn’t think the evolution-versus-creationism “debate” is that big a deal, and his reasons basically … Continue reading
Why is she so hung up on Ryan, anyway? He’s such a douche!
If you watch The Office without paying attention to the credits, you might assume that Mindy Kaling’s sole purpose on the show is to play Kelly Kapoor, the materialistic ‘office girl’ who is more interested in appearance and various superficialities … Continue reading