Okay, well I guess season two premiered last night, but we were watching Horrible Bosses 2 on HBO, so hopefully I’ll be catching up tonight. I read the original Strain book a year or two before they adapted it into a show, but never got around to reading the other two (even though I did like it). I really liked the first season — they did a good job adapting it and it’s so wonderfully over-the-top and gross — and I always like reading a book before […]
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Superhero Anthology!
Superhero Monster Hunter – The Good Fight edited by Thom Brannan and Miles Boothe (2015, 557 pages) Full disclosure: I do have something in this thirty-three story anthology, but as usual, in the name of false modesty, I will not review it. The other stories, however, are fair game. With this many stories, I will only critique my favorites (for a longer review that includes all the stories, see Amazon), but I can’t promise brevity if the story is really good. Red Fog by Greg […]
Happy Birthday, Mr. Tesla!
Atomic Robo has been one of my favorite discoveries of the year. It isn’t deep, but it is smart and fun. Volume 5 is in many ways Robo’s origin story, not the origin of how he came to be, but the origin of how he became a crime fighting action scientist. It introduces us to young Robo, still living with his creator, Nikolai Tesla. Robo is bored with his studies and seeks adventure in adventure science comic books. One night he sees Jack Tarot, a […]
Shut up, Juliette
Shatter Me is a silly, overblown book that reads like the literary journal the kids in your 1990’s middle school published out of the public library and distributed in front of a local Hot Topic. I’m not going into a lot of plot detail here, because if you’ve read any dystopian YA novel in the past five years, you’ve read this one. I’m also going to be mildly spoiling the book, so, you know, beware. Juliette has been locked up in a solitary psych ward […]
All my fears were unfounded – of course I loved this book
Six days into the first manned mission on Mars, there is a huge dust storm, forcing most of the crew to evacuate, earlier than anticipated. Mark Watney, the crew’s botanist and mechanical engineer is impaled on an antenna and believed to have died. He wakes up alone, stranded on Mars with no way of signalling Earth that he is still alive. The next manned mission to Mars is scheduled in four years’ time, and even if he were able to send a signal to announce […]
Ugh, this could have been so.much.better.
Oh, this book had such a cool set up, but just couldn’t seem to live up to it! Set about 150 years in the future, The Dead Lands focuses on a society built among the ruins of St. Louis. This community, known as the Sanctuary, is all that remains of the United States after a super flu, and then nuclear war, wipes everyone out. Or so they’ve been led to believe. Then one day, a slightly-mutant girl (Gawea, as in Saca-) shows up at the Sanctuary, […]
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