Book Review: Great Science-Fiction edited by Tony Licata This anthology was, Wikipedia says, originally intended to have the title “Bizarre”, but that might have drawn the wrong kind of attention, so the publisher gave it this much more generic title. “The Wind” by Ray Bradbury starts us off with a spooky tale of a man… Continue reading Book Review: Great Science-Fiction
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Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. We begin this issue of the classic science fiction magazine with an editorial on “The Science of Psionics.” While the study of psychic phenomena is large discredited in the 21st Century, back in the 1950s it was still considered a serious if… Continue reading Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501 edited by Nicola Cuti After the all-Legion issue #500, the digest-sized Adventure Comics returned to featuring multiple characters. Let’s see what it has to offer! “Codename: Pinkeye!” story by Martin Pasko, art by Joe Staton & Bob Smith, picks up right after the killing of foreign agent Dmitri Dervish.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #501
Movie Review: The Avengers (1998)
Movie Review: The Avengers (1998) directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik The Prospero Program, a method of manipulating weather patterns to create an atmospheric shield over the United Kingdom, has been compromised. It is now completely non-functional. The chief suspect is Dr. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman), one of the project scientists. While she was caught on camera… Continue reading Movie Review: The Avengers (1998)
Book Review: Land of the Giants
Book Review: Land of the Giants by Murray Leinster In the near future of the 1980s, the Spindrift, a suborbital plane, is getting ready for takeoff. It will be Flight 703 from Los Angeles to London with an expected duration of 41 minutes. The crew is Captain Steve Burton, pilot; Dan Erickson, co-pilot; and Betty… Continue reading Book Review: Land of the Giants
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500 edited by Nicola Cuti For this milestone issue of the anthology comic book in digest form, DC decided to go with the most popular feature, all Legion of Super-Heroes stories! “The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire” story by Jerry Siegel, art by John Forte, opens with a reminder that… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks: Second Contact
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks: Second Contact written by Ryan North, art by Derek Charm & Jack Lawrence Even in the Federation Starfleet of the 24th Century, not everyone gets to explore strange new worlds, meet new civilizations or go boldly where no one has gone before. These are the adventures of the… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks: Second Contact
Comic Book Review: Robot Archie and the Time Machine
Comic Book Review: Robot Archie and the Time Machine story by E. George Cowan, art by Ted Kearon Robot Archie was created in 1952 for Lion, a British weekly comic paper. Initially appearing in the serial “The Jungle Robot”, he was built by Professor C.R. Ritchie to help his nephew Ted Ritchie and Ted’s chum… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Robot Archie and the Time Machine
Movie Review: Adrenalin: Fear the Rush
Movie Review: Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996) directed by Albert Pyun In the very near future, a biochemical weapon is accidentally released in Eastern Europe. The resulting viral plague makes its way across the continent and over the ocean to America. All Eastern Europeans are suspect, and they are rounded up and confined to Boston in… Continue reading Movie Review: Adrenalin: Fear the Rush
Book Review: Falcon
Book Review: Falcon by Emma Bull Dominic “Niki” Emrys Ieuan Glyndwr is a prince of Cymru, a backwater planet primarily settled by people of Welsh descent who’d finally won their freedom from the English. He and his brilliant geneticist mother Morwenna have been on a long summer break from the press of palace affairs and… Continue reading Book Review: Falcon