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The Shows I’m Watching and You Should Too: Humans
I know, I know, more TV shows and not more books. But this year’s summer TV has actually delivered some pretty cool new shows, especially in the sci-fi realm. AMC’s latest show Humans, for instance,...
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Separate and New Works from the Creators of Avatar
The co-creators of the hugely popular animated shows Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra announced their upcoming projects earlier this week. The duo is not collaborating, at least for...
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Short Story Sunday: Drive
In December The Expanse will be premiering on Syfy channel. Based on the space opera series by James S.A. Corey (a pen name for authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), the story takes place in a future...
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Quantumly Connected: A Review of Entangled
I love a good space opera, so I was curious when I heard about Entangled. It is about a girl named Cade who is quantum entangled (connected at a molecular level) to a boy named Xan. The pair were...
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Short Story Sunday: Pimpf
Today I’m sharing something more comedic for your Sunday reading pleasure. “Pimpf“, by Charles Stross, is a short story featuring Bob Howard and other characters from Stross’ series The Laundry Files....
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A Blend of Myth and Post-Humanism: A Review of Hannu Rajaniemi’s Collected...
Hannu Rajaniemi is a Finnish sci-fi writer who is best known for his Jean le Flambeur series, the first book of which is The Quantum Thief. The series is known for its take on a post-human society,...
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Short Story: City of Ash
Hello, dear readers. I know that over the past couple of weeks I haven’t posted either frequently or with any kind of regularity or schedule. I don’t really have a great excuse, other than #summer,...
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Mutants and Aliens: An ARC Review for EVE: The Awakening
Today is the release of EVE: The Awakening, the self-published debut novel by Jenna Moreci. I met Moreci through Twitter once upon an internet time and as such was lucky enough to get an Advanced...
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A Lighthouse In Space: A Review of Beacon 23
In space opera, “space as the sea” is a familiar trope. Many of the large empires we’re familiar with from our favorite space faring adventures often resemble the maritime empires of old. But Hugh...
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Memory Hacks and AIs: A Review of Onica Transcending Vol. 1
I haven’t gotten as much reading done this past week as I would’ve liked, so I’m sharing a review for the short story Onica Transcending by Lisa Kjaer, which I downloaded from the Kindle Store. Like...
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Nobody Puts Honor in a Corner: A Review of On Basilisk Station
I picked up On Basilisk Station, the first book in the Honor Harrington series, a little while ago because I’m a big fan of space opera, and I realized that I hadn’t read anything from the Honorverse,...
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Questing Fathers, Dragon Seed, and Revolutionaries: A Review of Saga Vol. V
The fifth volume of Saga, the Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples comic book epic, brings some of its ongoing quest plot lines to a close. While it does a nice job of setting up conflicts to come, this...
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The Shows I’m Watching and You Should Too: Things Based on Movies
With the fall TV season kicking off, I thought I’d take a little break from book reviews and share my thoughts on some of the shows I enjoy watching. Of course I’m excited for the return of some of my...
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The Shows I’m Watching and You Should Too: Blindspot
Heroes with memory loss seem to be a big thing these days. The Bourne Identity is the most notable story featuring this trope, but earlier this summer the Syfy show Dark Matter was built around a...
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Strange and Often Stranger: A Review of Three Moments Of An Explosion
I picked this book up on a wander through Barnes and Noble. I wasn’t aware it was coming out, and I haven’t read a ton of China Mieville’s work, but I really enjoyed Perdido Street Station, so I...
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Joining Pinterest and Blog Update
In an effort to expand my platform in a fun new direction, I’ve recently joined Pinterest. I’m a very visual person, and ideas for my writing are often inspired by pieces of art I see, especially...
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A Superhero-villain Story with a Body Count: A Review of the Suicide Squad...
In advance of the upcoming Suicide Squad film, I thought I might check out the actual comic book series, or at least the current version from the New 52 (DC’s reboot of all its properties which began...
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Games With Ghouls: A Review of “Skullpocket”
Earlier this week io9 shared a copy of a short story from the newly released anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. That story was “Skullpocket“, by Nathan Ballingrud, a fantasy...
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Content Creation: Writing On Writing
I’ve been working on this website for a long time to put out content as a way to generate an internet presence. I’ve written book reviews, movie reviews, TV show reviews, really a whole mess of...
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Content Creation: Should I Write Book Reviews?
Creating content for your author platform can be really difficult. Blogs/vlogs need to be updated regularly, and coming up with topics to write about isn’t always easy. For a long time I didn’t want...
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