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Honey, I shrunk the scientists and let them fight it out with insects

February 8, 2016 by kjenos 1 Comment

I have a fond recollection of reading Jurassic Park (pre-movie release) in college and being so caught up I read until dawn then hit Skyway Jacks for the Fisherman’s Special. The homefries! This will likely not enrapture you as much. It’s not bad, but much of it feels like ground covered by Rick Moranis.  And Slither.  (An amusing combination.) A group of ambitious graduate students from Cambridge is flown to Hawaii to be impressed and hopefully employed by Nanigen, a biotech firm with a psychotically […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction

kjenos's CBR8 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: ·
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Fracking should be more fun

January 23, 2016 by kjenos Leave a Comment

The Fracking King by James Browning Win Crwth, rhymes with Truth, loves Scrabble.  He relates to the world through it.  Poorly. This (YA?  Do any youth actually know how to spell anymore?) story seemed full of potential.  A boy with a Welsh name and parents who thought being bi-coastal would make him cosmopolitan (instead, he became “a hippie prig”) receives a scholarship to his 3rd boarding school.   A scholarship sponsored by Dark Oil & Gas, which leads to far-too-many Darkside puns and nowhere near […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: not Carl Hiaasen, Scrabble

kjenos's CBR8 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: not Carl Hiaasen, Scrabble ·
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