Honestly I think that for the most part I was bored by this book. I think the fact that I am a girl that has grown up reading Stephen King, none of the plot points in this book were surprising to me. Dark Matter follows the character of Jason Dessen after he is abducted by a mysterious man in a mask and finds himself in a place that’s familiar but is altogether different than the world he is use to. Jason spends most of the […]
Secrets are lies. [Also, pizza gif within]
“Secrets are lies” Holy mother of Jesus. I can’t even with this book. I’d been hearing about this book for ages, mostly praise, but I was unsure that I could handle ANOTHER book about “social media = bad” and technology is super duper dangerous. To be fair, the book did not immediately quell my fears. The first part was slow going and had me rolling my eyes slightly at the obvious parody of facegooglespacehoo. Then I burnt my bread. That’s not a euphemism. I’d put […]
All’s Fair in War and Science
It’s not that Research isn’t aware of the ethical implications of its line of inquiry. It’s just that they really don’t care.
Just a Spoon Full of C12H22O11
SciFan Magazine, Dayne Edmondson, Richard M. Mulder, and Patrick Hodges, Editors (2017) This anthology is a little different than most. Not only does it include science fiction and fantasy short stories, but it also contains excerpts from new science fiction and fantasy novels. It’s an interesting way to read a bit of a novel and see if you like it or not. Clever. I’ve marked the excerpts with an asterisk. Across the St. Lawrence: A Tale of the Pendragon Empire by Teel James Glenn – […]
He Had Me Right Up Until the Sasquatch Started Singing
In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford (1972) I want to like Mr. Benford’s books. I really do. He’s one of the SF Masters, up there with Asimov, Clarke, and Norton, and he’s a scientist, too. But each time I try to delve into one of his hard SF books, he goes off onto a tangent (in this case, a metaphysical one). I guess it worked for Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 when the science got so dense that we saw God, but this book […]
One for the fans (but probably not the rest of us)
/me sighs… wonders how to do this without sounding grumpy… I’ve always been a Star Wars fan: I remember my parents taking us to the drive-in to see the original on a double feature with Damnation Alley and have seen all of the films multiple times; I remember that the first Star Wars figure I got was R2-D2, and that I collected every Kenner figure and all the mail-in redemptions all the way through the end of Return of the Jedi; I own several of […]
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