Ben reviews Philip K. Dick’s novel Now Wait For Last Year
In 1989, I was in high school, dating a girl for the first time. I took her to several movies that summer, but Star Trek V: The Final Frontier wasn’t one of them. I had…
TARDIS Talk: “Doctor Who” Series 8 Official Trailer
- July 16, 2014
- Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk
Talk about timey-wimey! Have almost seven months passed since we watched Matt Smith take his final bow as the Doctor? I remember bemoaning the fact that Peter Capaldi’s tenure in the TARDIS wouldn’t start until…
If you’ve listened to the show for long, you’ve probably heard me talk about my love for Dan Simmons. Not only is he my favorite living author, he’s one of the few who, in my…
X-Men: Days of Future Past Review
- May 23, 2014
- Tagged as: x-men
Ben, Matt, Koby and Reggie review the latest entry in the X-Men franchise
Ben reviews the first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy: Red Mars
Tangential TARDIS Talk: Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
- February 20, 2014
- Tagged as: Doctor Who, Dr. Who and the Daleks, Peter Cushing
As a member of the original Star Wars generation, I’ve always associated Peter Cushing, the venerable British stage and screen star, with a single role: Grand Moff Tarkin, the only Imperial authority other than Emperor…
Since starting our podcast back in 2011, Ben and I have had a lot of requests to read self-published authors’ books. Sometimes the books are bad. Sometimes the books are good. Flight of the Angels,…
A female Captain Kirk challenges “old assumptions,” within and without of the Star Trek universe. What if Captain Kirk were a woman? I’m not talking about a situation like that in the Original Series’ abysmal…
Divergent is a 2011 young adult novel, and is the debut novel for author, Veronica Roth. With the release of the movie adaptation hitting theaters on March 21, 2014, the popularity of this book, as…
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