Setting Archive : space
(I try to break stuff down by place and time. Doesnt always work but there you go)
The Martian
Mark Watney is a botanist and engineer assigned to the Ares programme, one of the very few who gets to […]
Posted on 26 July 2014 | By Fence | Leave a response
Redshirts
p>Read for the 2014 Sci-Fi Experience Ensign Dahl has just been assigned to The Intrepid. In many ways this is […]
Posted on 10 December 2013 | By Fence | 6 responses
Warhorse
For years humans had thought themselves alone in space. But then the Tampies made themselves known. And they, unlike humanity, […]
Posted on 16 May 2013 | By Fence | 2 responses
Star Trek into darkness
Terrorism is everywhere these days. From Iron Man to Star Trek and everywhere in between, you just can’t get away […]
Posted on 12 May 2013 | By Fence | 5 responses
On a red station, drifting
Ever since she arrived on Prosper Station Quyen has been welcomed by the Honoured Ancestress, the artificial intelligence that runs […]
Posted on 21 April 2013 | By Fence
Leviathan wakes
The Expanse – book 1 In the not so distant, but still far off, future humans have left Earth. Colonised […]
Posted on 2 July 2012 | By Fence | 2 responses
Alien
Dir. Ridley Scott
Can you believe that this film is 31 years old? Thirty one years old. That’s as old as I am. And yet it is still as effective as ever. And perfect for the RIP’s Peril on the Screen.
You probably all know the plot; a commercial space vessel’s crew is woken from cryo-sleep midway through their journey home. The ship’s computer has picked up a transmission that may be an SOS call. As they investigate they find an abandoned ship but suffer an attack on a crew member. They retreat to their own ship, carrying their injured member, and ignoring quarantine procedures, they undergo treatment from the science officer. And then things begin to go wrong…
Posted on 26 October 2010 | By Fence | 6 responses
Olympos
By Dan Simons
I really loved Ilium when I read it in June so was looking forward to this, the sequel. And it kicks off right where we left the story in the first book. Unfortunately it just didn’t work as well. All through this book I was interested in what was going on, but never gripped, never fascinated or engaged by it. Merely hmm, that’s interesting.
Posted on 8 August 2010 | By Fence
Doom
I wasn’t hoping for great things, and all my hopes were met. Not good at all. The basic plot is […]
Posted on 10 December 2005 | By Fence
Serenity
ISBN: 1416502882 813.54 Novelization of the film by the same name. Where do you start when you go to write […]
Posted on 27 October 2005 | By Fence
Those Left Behind
Serenity Comics #1-3 ISBN: 1593074492 Set between the end of Firefly and before the Big Damn Movie that is Serenity […]
Posted on 2 October 2005 | By Fence
Battlestar Galactica -season 1
I caught the mini-series when it showed on SkyOne last year, but missed a few of episodes of the series […]
