This takes me back to the ‘dark side’ of my youth.
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Great Unsung Science Fiction Authors That Everybody Should Read
More books to be added to my TBR stack. I will be scrutinizing the female authors closely.
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io9 March Madness Final Four: Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings!
http://io9.com/io9-march-madness-final-four-harry-potter-vs-lord-of-1551342961
Easy voting today but the next and final round will be a tough devision.
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eBook Review: Hollow World by Sullivan (4 out of 5 stars)
Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan
Read in November 2013
Synopsis:
The future is coming…for some, sooner than others.
Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when faced with a terminal illness, he’s willing to take an insane gamble. He’s built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than a cure for his illness; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began…but only if he can survive Hollow World.
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Why “Critical Density” Could Determine the Fate of the Universe
I don’t remember seeing Esther (the author of the above article) at last Saturday evening’s ASKC meeting and Dr. Feldman’s lecture on Dark Matter and Dark Energy … but I’ve seen that graph very recently.
Hmmm…
io9 March Madness Elite Eight: Lord of the Rings vs. Game of Thrones!
Tolkien v Martin … I know who I’m voting for. Do you?
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Movie Review: Parkland (3.5 Stars)
Watched BluRay late March 2014
I must be mad (hinting at March Madness) or crazy because all this film did was depress me. These events predate me by almost ten months. Not even a glint in my parents’ eyes yet. I’ve stood on the white “X” on the street where President Kennedy was shot in Dallas. I’ve walked through the park and stood in the spot where Zapruder captured the assassination on film. I did not visit Parkland, where both Kennedy and Oswald were declared deceased. Until this morning, I didn’t even know the name of the hospital nor the doctors and nurses burdened with that triage.
io9 March Madness Sweet 16: Star Wars vs. Dune! Buffy vs. Cthulhu!
Some tough decisions among these polls.
And yes I continue to vote against Game of Thrones.
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Audiobook Review: King of Thorns by Lawrence (DNF)
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
Fantasy Book Club selection August 2013
Attempted to Read/Listen: August 2013
I tried reading, or rather listening, to this in August 2013 for the GoodReads Fantasy Book Club. We previously read Prince of Thorns as a group in October 2011 and I actually liked the first book of the series. But I had to give up listening at around twenty percent. I may come back to it at a later date, but right now I need something a lot less bleak.
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Fantasy v SF Round One Second Half Gets Weird
io9 continues whittling down the first sixty-four entries, getting decidedly weirder, digging around in the classics for mad scientists, dystopian alternate realities, monsters and magic.
Results from the first half of the voting returned only one disappointment for me, and it’s a bittersweet one. The Princess Bride edged out The Wheel of Time in the Epic Fantasy bracket. Bit of a quibble for me as I don’t really think the former qualifies as ‘epic’ fantasy; rather, it’s more like humorous high fantasy. The latter clearly takes epic to the next level and should not have been so easily defeated. I’ve read both, though, and loved them both.
Update March 20, 2014: I missed the vote yesterday for the first half of round two. Some of the results are already in and can be found here.
Upcoming Schedule:
- Friday, March 21: Sweet Sixteen
- Monday, March 24: Elite Eight
- Wednesday, March 26: Final Four
- Friday, March 28: Championship