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Showing posts with label Science Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science Fiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

TV Review: For All Mankind (Seasons 1-4). On Apple TV+.

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A couple of weeks ago, I read a comment somewhere by an entertainment reviewer who mentioned that “of course” she had immediately started ...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Book Review: The Every (Dave Eggers, 2021).

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A while ago, I wrote a review of Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle from 2015, which was made into a good film with Emma Watson in the starring r...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Book Review: Sea of Tranquility (2022). Emily St. John Mandel.

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This is an earnest first attempt at a real science-fiction novel by the author of Station Eleven , which follows a number of ordinary human ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Book Series Review: Outlander. Diana Gabaldon.

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I previously reviewed the ninth novel in the long series of Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone (2021), but...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Book Reviews: Honorable Mentions List (Fiction and Science Fiction)

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In my most recent personal note from last Sunday, July 23rd, I mentioned that I wanted to try occasionally posting an "Honorable Mentio...
Monday, July 4, 2022

TV Review: The Mandalorian. Seasons 1 & 2 (Disney+).

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I watched the whole first season of Disney’s first venture in monetizing the Star Wars galaxy for streaming TV with only modest enthusiasm, ...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Book Series Review: The Dune Chronicles: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969), Children of Dune (1976), God Emperor of Dune (1981), Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985). Frank Herbert.

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Today I'm doing something a little different.  Instead of writing a review of one book, I'm doing a quick summary of a series of rel...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Book Reviews: Blackout (2010) and All Clear (2010). Connie Willis.

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I recently re-read these two thick science fiction and historical novels, which were originally intended to be one volume, but grew to be tw...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Season 1 (2022). Disney+.

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The first two live-action streaming TV series that Disney launched, based on the Star Wars universe, were The Mandalorian (Seasons 1 and 2,...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

Book Review: Doomsday Book (1992). Connie Willis.

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I re-read this excellent science fiction novel recently after many years (it was a Nebula Winner, originally published in 1992). What perfe...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Book Review: Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone (2021). Book 9 of the Outlander Series. Diana Gabaldon.

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After a very long wait for legions of dedicated fans around the world, the latest installment in the epic Outlander series of novels by Dia...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Movie Review: Don't Look Up (2021). Netflix.

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This is last year's star-studded "end of the world" movie satire about a planet-killing comet headed for earth.  At the beginn...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Book Review: The Passengers (2019). John Marrs.

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The Passengers is another dystopian thriller of the near future, this one focused on self-driving cars.   The essential plot:   a hacker ...
Sunday, May 8, 2022

Book Review: The Warehouse (2019). Rob Hart.

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This dark near-future thriller does for Amazon what The Circle (2015) by Dave Eggers did for Google and Facebook, by painting a stark ficti...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Book Review: The Ministry of the Future (2020). Kim Stanley Robinson.

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The New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein (in one of his   excellent podcasts on The Ezra Klein Show ) called this "the most impo...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Book Review: Recursion (2020). Brian Crouch.

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This is the second novel by Crouch that approaches the question of multiple universes and timelines, but this time from the standpoint of ne...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Movie Review: Dune (Part 1) (2021). HBO Max and in theaters.

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The SyFy Channel produced two good TV mini-series in the early 2000s, Dune and Children of Dune , which covered the first three books of Fr...