Wonder Woman : the circle by Gail Simone
The problem I have with so many comic book characters is where exactly to start. There is so much back story to the established ones that it is hard to just...
22 February 2015
Traitors’ Gate by Kate Elliott
Crossroads; book 3 So, this is book three, so to give a quick recap would be to give spoilers for the previous books, so I won’t. However, I will say that...
21 February 2015
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
At a market in Lahore our narrator, Changez, meets an unidentified American and offer to assist him in finding the best tea there is. He guides him to a cafe and...
16 February 2015
Mount TBR update
I’m trying to keep track of recommended reads. Too often I read a book because someone really like it, or wrote a great post about it, and then I forget where...
15 February 2015
The dazzle of day by Molly Gloss
Dolores Negrete is leaving home, she will be boarding the Dusty Miller along with many other Quakers and leaving the planet, heading for the great unknown of space. Earth is dying....
15 February 2015
John Wick dir. by Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
John Wick’s wife has just died. But its okay, she’s left him the gift of a puppy so that he’ll still have something to love. Because that what he needs, you...
8 February 2015
Birdman dir. by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Riggan (Michael Keaton) is the star of a series of superhero films, the Birdman of the title, but he wants to be known for more than that. He wants to be...
1 February 2015
A serpent uncoiled by Simon Spurrier
Dan Shaper is a private investigator. He used to be a mob enforcer. He used to beat and batter and otherwise assault various people on behalf of his criminal bosses. But...
31 January 2015
Big Hero 6 dir. by Chris Williams, Dan Hall
Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) graduated High School at 13, and since then he’s been spending his time at Bot Fights. He hustles older robot controllers. His older brother is not impressed....
31 January 2015
How to become a robot in 12 easy steps by A. Merc Rustad
via LadyBusiness where I seem to be getting all my short story recs recently Tesla is in love with a robot. Tesla would also like to be a robot. This is...
30 January 2015
War of the arrows dir. by Han-min Kim
Nam Yi (Hae-il Park) and his younger sister Ja-in (Chae-won Moon) escape the government assassins who kill their father and flee to a family friend. There they grow up knowing they...
27 January 2015
Inverted world by Christopher Priest
Part of my Sci-Fi Experience 2015 as well as the Vintage Sci-Fi Not a Challenge Helward Mann was born, and grew up, in the city of Earth. Like all children he...
21 January 2015