The Theradane Cycle: 1 by Scott Lynch © 2018 Scott Lynch, Published by Scott Lynch at Smashwords, ISBN 978-0-692-19212-2 (ebook) I did a review a month or so ago of Gentleman Bastard, a trilogy by Scott Lynch. I happened to compare it to Samuel Delany’s short masterpiece, “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” …
Peter Cawdron, (c) 2023, 415pp Anthony is a seemingly unremarkable teen apprentice to an chemist/herbalist/alchemist at an apothecary stall on the outskirts of Westminster, a small town not far from the city of London. Westminster, like Anthony, seems usual, but like Anthony, has a feature that makes it rather extraordinary. About a quarter mile from …
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson William Morrow, 720 pp. There is an old saying attributed to the Arabs: “It is unwise to summon that which you cannot dismiss.” The underlying philosophy is that we can conjure up mighty powers and processes to deal with any given situation, but in the event of unintended consequences (and …
The Expanse Executive producers Naren Shankar, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, Sharon Hall, Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Laura Lancaster, Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, & Dan Nowak Producers Lynn Raynor, Jason Ning, Robin Veith, Ben Cook, Ben Roberts, Manny Danelon, Alan Di Fiore, Lewin Webb, Robert Munroe, Steven Strait Production locations Toronto, …
Bad Dog Military Science Fiction Across A Holographic Multiverse (Gate Walkers) by Ashley R. Pollard Triode Press 317pp. The first few pages of Pollard’s book may strike some as a bit of a slog. You get hit with a lot of military jargon right off the bat and might feel that you picked up an …
Sun Fall by Jim Al-Khalili, 2019, Bantam Press, 440pp, available through Amazon. When I learned that Jim Al-Khalili, a top theoretical quantum physicist and world-famous television presenter had written a science fiction novel, Sun Fall, I knew I had to give it a read. In part, it was because [shameless plug follows] my own two …
2001: A Space Odyssey Directed and Produced by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and a little red dot Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth Edited by Ray Lovejoy Production company Stanley Kubrick Productions Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Yes, I did see 2001 on the big screen when it first …
Project Power Directed by: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman Produced by: Eric Newman & Bryan Unkeless Written by: Mattson Tomlin Starring: Jamie Foxx; Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Dominique Fishback; Rodrigo Santoro; Colson Baker; Allen Maldonado; Amy Landecker; Courtney B. Vance Music by: Joseph Trapanese Cinematography: Michael Simmonds Edited by: Jeff McEvoy Production companies: Screen Arcade, Supermarche Distributed …
In the Shadow of the Moon Directed by: Jim Mickle Produced by: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh, Rian Cahill, Linda Moran, Jim Mickle Written by: Gregory Weidman & Geoff Tock Cast: Boyd Holbrook as Thomas Lockhart Cleopatra Coleman as Rya Bokeem Woodbine as Maddox Rudi Dharmalingam as Naveen Rao Rachel Keller as Jean Michael C. Hall …
Cyberhell: a review of Fall; or, Dodge in Hell Author Neal Stephenson Illustrator Nick Springer / Springer Cartographics LLC Cover artist Fritz Metsch Publisher William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publication June 4, 2019 Pages 883 All fiction involves, to one degree or another, ‘world building.’ No matter how hyper-realistic the story wants to be, …