Brave New World: A Classic Book, An Amazing Show?
In a deviation from my usual rules, for Brave New World, I watched it all. The entire nine episodes. I did this so I could properly cover how it fits the original tale.
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Megatomic Battle Rabbit: A Promising Showing
Megatomic Battle Rabbit is a little out of my usual purview for a few reasons. The first simply because it’s a comic book. I’m predominantly a movie and television critic, but I know instances of good writing when I see it.
Learning Writing From Brandon Sanderson
He is a delightful person, with a wealth of knowledge about the craft of writing. He has a tremendous understanding of what it takes for new writers to make it in the wild industry of publishing books.
Artemis Fowl: The Absolute Worst Adaption Ever
Artemis Fowl Is An Abysmally Bad Watch Artemis Fowl is a travesty. It is an insult to those that we’re excited about it, those that had hope for it, and is simply a bad watch. And, yes, I’m a fan of the books, and, also yes, I was disappointed with how poorly they adapted it….
The Price of Safety: Smart Tech, Weak Characters
The Price of Safety Is More Action Than Sci-Fi The Price of Safety is a book full of good ideas but is plagued by sloppy execution. Very quickly in the reading, it was apparent to me that this was a book that loved its technology, and had an in-depth understanding of engineering and science, but…
New Book: Reading Away The Hours
Lazarus Thoth went away for the summer, fell into a good book…and we haven’t seen him since. From Brandon Scott, author of many of our Friday Fiction posts and review articles, comes a new horror novel about one boy’s descent into his own timeline and other dimensions. Will Lazarus be able to escape the strange…
Mistborn: The Final Empire: Is It Worth Your Time?
The Mistborn Trilogy is a long series, each book being in the high hundreds of pages. I’m only mid the second book at the time of writing, but for those wondering if it’s worth reading the first book in the series, this review is for you. Because Mistborn: The Final Empire is certainly catnip for…
The Forward Collection: Bits Of Sci-Fi Goodness
It was an accident that I found out about the Forward collection on Amazon Prime—but I’m so happy I did. Turns out, if you have Prime, it’s free, and each short story is interesting in its own way. There’s six in all, so I thought I’d cover my thoughts on each of these tales. Ark…
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza: Not The End of The World
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza Fails To Armaggedon For a book supposedly about the end of the world, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza doesn’t seem to want to focus very much on the actual end of the world. It seems content to deal with mundane moments of growing up and overcoming problems, and while that’s…
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children: A Slightly Less Peculiar Review Of The First Book
Miss Peregrine’s: A Peculiar Hit Of A Book My initial worry regarding Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was that it was going to be too much a superhero book, too much an X-Men knock off, or some wannabe Harry Potter, but with a twist. The title seemed to promise as much, after all, and…
Project Nemesis Trilogy: A Series of Twists
Project Nemesis Keeps On Twisting Itself Project Nemesis is a book series guilty of something that the internet has long figured out is not an “effective” way of storytelling but is amazing for marketing: The “Mystery Box.” The idea that mysteries trump actual good storytelling and it’s best to set up things that seem interesting…
Guest Review: Roar by Cora Carmack
“You must want to survive more than the storm does. When you drive your hand into the heart of a storm, it in turn drives into you. It will search out every weakness, every insecurity. If you are afraid to die, it will know.” Reading a brief synopsis of Roar before I decided to invest…
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