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Book Review: Welcome to Night Vale
- October 30, 2015
- Tagged as: Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale
If you’ve ever listened to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, then you already know this fictional (one can only hope) little town that bakes under a desert sun (one presumes it is our sun,…
In the real world, Marty, Doc Brown and Jennifer were no-shows yesterday. But in the comic book world, characters from the Back to the Future films arrived right on schedule. IDW published the first issue…
In his introduction, Caseen Gaines sets the bar high for We Don’t Need Roads: You may not believe Back to the Future is the most important film trilogy of all time, but after reading this…
TARDIS Talk: “Under the Lake” (Series 9.3) (SPOILERS)
- October 7, 2015
- Tagged as: Cass, Doctor Who, persons with disabilities, Sophie Stone, TARDIS Talk
“Under the Lake” unapologetically stakes its claim in Doctor Who’s expansive territory of “base under siege” stories. It even ups the ante with a base, The Drum, that’s also under water and, by hour’s end,…
TARDIS Talk: “The Witch’s Familiar” (Series 9.2) (SPOILERS)
- October 2, 2015
- Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk
Now that’s more like it! “The Witch’s Familiar” foregoes the epic set pieces and over-the-top theatrics of last week’s “The Magician’s Apprentice” in favor of a clean, compelling plot full of gripping, character-driven drama. Julian…
TARDIS Talk: “The Magician’s Apprentice” (Series 9.1) (SPOILERS)
- September 23, 2015
- Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk
Who is the apprentice of this episode’s title? Is it Bors—poor, Dalek-ified Bors—as one might think from the highly amusing prequel episode “The Doctor’s Meditation”? Is it Clara, as the Doctor’s current companion? Regardless of…
Book Review & Reflections: Armada by Ernest Cline
- September 4, 2015
- Tagged as: Armada, Ernest Cline, ready player one
At the risk of my geek cred losing some hit points, I confess I still haven’t read Ernest Cline’s acclaimed debut novel, Ready Player One (which, like another book on my must-read-ASAP list, is coming…
It’s an old trivia question, but it sometimes still manages to trip people up: “Who played Frankenstein in the famous 1931 Universal movie?” The answer is Colin Clive. The incomparable Boris Karloff, whose name first…
Childhood’s End Trailer: The No-God Golden Age
- August 4, 2015
- Tagged as: arthur c clarke, C.S. Lewis, Childhood's End, Syfy, utopia
“How do you like your Golden Age?” The trailer Syfy released last month at Comic-Con for its upcoming adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End (1953) ends with that ominous-sounding question. Posed by the enigmatic,…
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