Do I love The Last Starfighter? Do I need a new novel version of it? Meh. Do I love 80’s games and remember them fondly? Hell yeah, but even I got a bit tired of the references and repetitiveness in this book. This may be unrelated but these were my personal favorites: I listened to the audiobook of Armada because I so enjoyed the previous audiobook by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, also read by Wil Wheaton. This novel also threw in a lot of nostalgia for […]
A Wild Ride
What in the world did I just read?! Nothing could have prepared me for the wild ride Bitch Planet took me on. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything so in-your-face before, but I liked it. Bitch Planet is like The Handmaid’s Tale times 11. Basically, any woman deemed noncompliant is rounded up and sent to a jail planet officially known as Auxiliary Compliance Outpost, colloquially known as Bitch Planet. Who decides if women are noncompliant? A council of holy “fathers” meets to judge offenders […]
If Hitchhiker’s Guide & Firefly had a baby…
Pictured: the two covers for the United States release of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. They’re quite obviously paying homage to two of my favorite series: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Firefly. Which basically sums up the book itself. If you like either of those series, you’ll like this. “That’s such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to.” So sometime in the far, far future, Earth has self-destructed and humans (the rich ones fled to Mars prior to […]
“It’s not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them”
I’ve spent a good amount of time with Todd, Viola and the people of New World over the last month or so. I’m sad to see the end of the series (presumably…is Ness writing a fourth?), but I’m even sadder that I didn’t particularly enjoy this third installment — certainly not as much as the first two. “A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.” In the third novel, the book focuses mostly on war: the Spackle vs. the […]
Can Monsters Still Stalk in the Light?? Uh, YES.
I did it! Thanks to a double ear infection, a sinus infection AND strep I was able to read this six book series in seven days. It was a bumpy ride. All the books were good, but they were all full of suffering, pain, death, murder, suicide, (a little bit of love) and not a whole lot of hope. But I made it through them all and I’m glad that I did because this was a pretty solid series. Book seven, Light, has a couple […]
Where we’re going, we don’t need any… actually, yeah. Why don’t we at least bring some supplies.
The 1960 Rod Taylor film, of the same name, was in steady rotation when I was a kid. I don’t think I’ve seen it in 25 years, though, so I only have the vaguest memories of it. In my mind, the Morlocks looked like Blanka from Super Street Fighter II, and the access points to their underground layer looked remarkably like the concrete sewer risers in my hometown. When I was 10, the city began work on a large system of culverts just outside my […]
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