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Tag Archives: Skiffy
Shiny in the Black: A FIREFLY Christmas, part two (repost)
(Continuing my repost of last year’s Very Special Christmas episode of…) part one Wash put Serenity down on the landing pad, nice and gentle. So nice and gentle that Zoe complimented him on it. “You’re getting’ more gentle all the … Continue reading
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They will be, oh, I don’t know, TREKKING at some point, yes?
The new Star Trek movie has a title: Star Trek Into Darkness. OK. The new Star Trek movie also has a teasing synopsis: After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, … Continue reading
“Shiny in the Black: A FIREFLY Christmas”, part one (a repost)
(Just because I can…I’m reposting this little crime of fanfic that I committed a year ago. Since it’s in four installments — coinciding with the four acts of a typical hour-long teevee drama — I’ll post it one installment per … Continue reading
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Alien, Episode One: The Phantom Alien
So I watched Prometheus a week or two ago, and I’ve been struggling to come up with a reaction more nuanced than this, but…well, this is how I felt about it. Prometheus is a stunningly made film. It’s one of … Continue reading
Some possible cover art
Actually, none of these are really ‘possible cover art’, but these images are kinda-sorta how I’d like the cover of Princesses In SPACE!!! (not the actual title) to appear, if and when it finally comes out. Well, there’d also have … Continue reading
The Mouse and the Lightsaber: Random Thoughts on the Disney-Lucasfilm Deal
When I got home from work today, I walked in the door, took care of the mail, unpacked my lunchbox, changed my clothes, and checked the news…to learn that George Lucas has sold Lucasfilm to Disney…including Star Wars. This news … Continue reading
Wow! Look at all the strange new worlds and new civilizations!
Behold the single greatest piece of Star Trek fan art ever. (The more episodes of the Original Series you’ve seen and can remember, the more you’ll appreciate the staggering awesomeness of this.) Star Trek The Original Series by *dusty-abell on … 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
An awful waste of space
As much as I love Carl Sagan, I have to admit that I never warmed to his one and only novel, a science-fiction first contact story he called Contact. I tried reading it a couple of times, and each time … Continue reading
“So say we all!”
I’ve mentioned more than once, over the years, that I have a tendency to not be up on the big pop-culture things when they’re big, or up on what’s the cutting-edge thing in my favorite genres right when it’s at … Continue reading