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Sorry, movie-makers, I already read the Chris Priest novel with the similiar name, and it was way better. It even got written a year earlier, minus the silly sexual “game pod” imagery and with actual characters.

This is probably a far more effective recruiting video than anything they’ve got out there now. Enjoy.

Portraits (and stories) of age.

Man, I wanted to love this book. Really, really wanted to love this book. I hadn’t read any of Buckell’s stuff before, but I’d heard about it; it sounded like a great concept: space opera with a cast of characters with Caribbean heritage. I mean, dreadlocks and big guns and ships with awesome names like

You can now pick up a cheap copy of Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer on bookstore shelves. I did not lust after this book with ravenous passion of a bel dame, but I did enjoy much of what he did with it. My review/rant is here. Please support Series Fantasy That Doesn’t Suck.

  As I’ve been reading a recent SF title, it’s gotten me to think about what it is that makes fiction really great for me. Some of this I covered before when reviewing some of VanderMeer’s work, and the same issue is hitting me again with this book, only in the opposite way. See, so

Also, the Titanic sinks. Remember, you were warned.

pg 105 “All ten of us were women, Jamar. We gave up our wombs and in return were fitted with quantum computers running intrusion devices that can overpower lamina and make it extensions of our minds. It would be like being one with your ship, but anywhere. Your mind replicates, copying itself endlessly until you

One of the best fan rants ever: Maybe I’ll put it like this. To be a Star Wars fan, one must possess the ability to see a million different failures and downfalls, and then somehow assemble them into a greater picture of perfection. Every true Star Wars fan is a Luke Skywalker, looking at his

Man must accept death.Woman must die. or: No Plot.Pretty Pictures.