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Tag Archives: Space Opera
Striking Back
So, thirty years have passed since the release of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Wow, I guess. As luck would have it, I watched the film not too long ago — a couple of months, probably — … Continue reading
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I hope it tingles and tangles and prangles my transistors!
Remember my post a short while ago about the goofy 1980 B-movie space western Battle Beyond the Stars? I just figured that post represented a pleasant trip down geek memory lane for me and maybe a few others who recalled … Continue reading
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“I have come to conquer you!”
Battle Beyond the Stars is a movie that seems to confound expectations. If you watch it expecting a good movie, you’ll be disappointed. But on the other hand, if you watch it expecting a bad movie, you may be disappointed … Continue reading
To Barsoom!!!
AICN reports that John Carter of Mars is now shooting. I loved the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s series when I read it some time ago (note to self: read the rest of those books), and I have to … Continue reading
To the Stars in Ships!
I’ve read a couple more space opera novels lately: :: The Price of the Stars by Debra Doyle and James MacDonald was actually a re-read for me. The first time I read it was almost eight years ago, and I … Continue reading
By the light of the guttering candle
It’s been a while since I updated the books that The Daughter and I have been reading at bedtimes, so here are some capsules. Some of the most satisfying and entertaining reading I’ve done lately has come at night, as … Continue reading
Trekkin’
A couple of Star Trek related notes: :: Ron Moore confirms what many have suspected over the years: that the technobabble on Star Trek: The Next Generation was just made up, fill-in-the-blanks type stuff. “It became the solution to so … Continue reading
Into the Hole
Hey, remember the movie The Black Hole? I ran across a clip of it on YouTube the other day, and I’ve been thinking a bit about it. Maybe I should track down a DVD at some point. (Spoilers here, but … Continue reading
Thrusters and Blasters and Spaceships, oh my!
Notes on a couple of space opera reads I’ve done lately: :: I greatly enjoyed Andre Norton’s Moon of Three Rings a few months back, so more recently I read another by her, The Zero Stone. Where Moon of Three … Continue reading
Moving forward – the same direction as always.
I wrote once before on the initial graphic novel set in the Firefly universe, Those Left Behind. Now there are two such graphic novels; Those Left Behind has been joined by Better Days. While I’ll pretty much jump at nearly … Continue reading
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