Fandom for robots by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Published in Uncanny Magazine, Sept/Oct 2017. Issue 17. Short stories often don’t really work for me. Either too little happens or too much. Also being so short they often don’t have...
14 July 2018
The secret life of bots by Suzanne Palmer
Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine #132, September 2017 Bot 9 has just been activated after a long time offline. The Ship it serves has a huge list of to-do activities and...
10 July 2018
We are legion (we are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
Bobiverse : book 1 At some point in the near future Bob Johansson decides it is a great idea to freeze his head after his death. Life after death, what could...
5 February 2018
The prey of gods by Nicky Drayden
I added this book to my TBR pile a whole year ago, when it was rec’d by Kameron Hurley. And then it was one of the books discussed on Fangirl Happy...
27 January 2018
Blade Runner 2049 dir. by Denis Villeneuve
Sequel to Blade Runner Set thirty years after the first Blade Runner, this film is not set in our future, but in an alternate future. One that is bleak and brutal...
15 October 2017
Blade Runner (The final cut) [based on the book] by Philip K. Dick dir. by Ridley Scott
I know that at some point in the past I have watched Blade Runner. I do not know what version it was. I also am very aware that it has become...
13 October 2017
The red : first light by Linda Nagata
Book 1 in The Red trilogy ; part of my 2016 Sci-Fi experience (review site here) Lieutenant James Shelley never wanted to be a soldier. But life happened, and he made...
21 December 2015
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
Part of my Sci-Fi 2014 Experience When a book opens with a death by farting, two deaths by farting actually, you know this isn’t your usual run of the mill science...
17 January 2014
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
In the far distant future fourteen year old Anax is about to sit an exam. A four hour interview that will decide whether or not she will be accepted into The...
15 September 2011
Ilium by Dan Simmons
ISBN: 9780380817924 DDC: The first in the Ilium/Olympusduology. Author site ; Ilium sectionof the Ilium/Olympus wiki Ilium opens with Thomas Hockenberry, a twenty-first century professor, observing the Trojan War on behalf...
11 June 2010
Battlestar Galactica -season 1 dir. by Michael Rymer
I caught the mini-series when it showed on SkyOne last year, but missed a few of episodes of the series itself, and because the storyline is so involved I didn’t really...
17 September 2005
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