Category Archives: Science Fiction

Star Trek Picard

Posted on January 23, 2020 by

Just watched the first episode of Star Trek Picard.  What follows has spoilers, but only from the early parts of the episode. It takes place about 15 years after the events of the last Next Generation movie.  Picard appears to … Continue reading →

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Lost in Space

Posted on December 26, 2019 by

When I was very young in the early 70s, I remember coming home after school and watching afternoon TV, a lot of syndicated shows from the 60s.  One of those shows was the original Star Trek, in the early years … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: The Expanse (season 4)

Posted on December 14, 2019 by

Season 4 of The Expanse TV show was released Friday on Amazon Prime, so I just spent today binging on it. There was a lot of uncertainty about the show last year when SyFy canceled it, but within a short … Continue reading →

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Ad Astra: Apocalypse Now in space

Posted on December 6, 2019 by

The movie Ad Astra is a strange mix.  In many ways, it’s a visually stunning film with excellent production values.  And it has first class name stars, most notably Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.  But the plot has serious … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Silver (Inverted Frontier Book 2)

Posted on November 30, 2019 by

I just finished reading Linda Nagata’s new book, Silver, which is the second book of her new Inverted Frontier series.  It’s a sequel to the first book, Edges, which I recommended earlier this year, and Memory, which I described and … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Memory

Posted on October 2, 2019 by

I’ve noted before that I think science fiction author Linda Nagata is an underrated talent.  She crafts mind bendingly imaginative tales.  I’ve recommend several of her books, all in The Nanotech Succession series, which she has recently started adding to … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Altered Carbon: Download Blues

Posted on August 3, 2019 by

I posted a while back on the Netflix series, Altered Carbon, based on the books by Richard K. Morgan.  The series presents a universe where everyone has a device implanted in their brainstem shortly after birth that records their personality, … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: The Warship

Posted on July 21, 2019 by

Back in January, I recommended Neal Asher’s The Soldier, the first book of a series called The Rise of the Jain.  The series takes place in Asher’s Polity universe, a future interstellar civilization run by AIs (artificial intelligence) and featuring … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Children of Ruin

Posted on June 2, 2019 by

Last year I recommended Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, a novel about the far future involving a struggle between an interstellar ark of refugees from a dying Earth and an accidental civilization of uplifted spiders over the one terraformed world … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Game of Thrones

Posted on May 24, 2019 by

(Warning: Here be spoilers!) Last week was the series finale for Game of Thrones, a series I’d been watching from the very beginning.  Indeed, I first discovered George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books way back … Continue reading →

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